Suite - Nowhere-Land: We've Been A Hundred Men / Headin' For South America (Reprise)

(album: Into The Ring - 1987)

[September, 20, 1990: Early in the morning...]

We've been a hundred men and now we are ten
On this rotten boat
Ninety dreams we've buried in the sand
Not one of them comes back again
And all we needed was a piece of land
A handful of sand in nowhere-land

We were young, we were brave, we were bold
Our visions come to an end
One thousand days have made us grow old
And the wind's still blowing mighty cold
And all we needed was a piece of land
A handful of sand in nowhere-land

And all we needed was a piece of land
A handful of sand in nowhere-land
All that's left is so small, so small
But the last ones will be
The first after all

So, let's make sail the tide is right
The winds are blowing strong
Say farewell to dreams that died
The way back home is long
No more heading for South America
No more heading for an island
'Cause someone else was there before
And killed the land from shore to shore

And if we don't hurry, boys
We'll soon find out the end of the story...