INTRO: E5 F#5 B5 E5 B5

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Ten year have passed in what seems like a minute
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Just a restless boy intent on having fun
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Now I step down from the bus beside my old school
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A wiser man now that the journey's done.
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      I've learnt silence from those that speak their mind
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      I've learnt kindness from those who are unkind
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      I've travelled round the world in search of what I need
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      Found it all waiting back home in Aberdeen.

Refrain: E5 F#5 B5 E5 B5

The river's lullaby that once subdued me
And the buzzing hills that improvised a wall
Are sweet now I no longer seek an answer
To the self-imposing saddest songs of all
      And from that bitter root there grows a vine
      That shows regret for wasted years is wasted time
      I?ve travelled round the world in search of what I need
      Found it all waiting back home in Aberdeen

Solo: F#5 B5 F#5 B5 E5 B5 F#5 B5 

Opaque clouds unmask a worried old face
But the images dissolve behind a tree
Unafraid of change and happy now in small ways
There is now as there always was, just me.
      And though the future is far off this much I know
      Nothing?s as far away as one minute ago
      I've travelled round the world in search of what I need
      Found it all waiting back home in Aberdeen

I?ve travelled round the world in search of what I need
      Found it all waiting back home in Aberdeen

Refrain: E5 F#5 B5 E5 B5