Over the Hills and Far Away

Throwing stones at the embassy

Policeman come and arrested me

Paper at the university said I was a hero

And the wise old judge that I went before

Wouldn't believe what I did it for

Said this is no way to stop the war

But how the hell would he know?

Singing songs of dissolution

Ban the bomb and beat pollution

Writin' on walls about a revolution

That's guaranteed to grow

And I see on the news some identity

With an old man's views on society

Said there's no room for guys like me

But how the hell would he know?

Over the hills and far away

I'm gonna understand one day

What the other half believe in

If it's real or just deceiving

So until I find that day, I'll go along my way

And I'll look back on my life

And I'll know I lived it right

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do

Lying down across the roadway

Almost lasted out the whole day

Drivers trying, but there was no way

Left for them to go

And the wise old judge that we went before

Wouldn't believe what we did it for

Said this is no way to help the poor

But how the hell would he know?

Over the hills and far away

I'm gonna understand one day

What the other half believe in

If they're real or just deceiving

So until I find that day, I'll go along my way

And I'll look back on my life

And I'll know I lived it right

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do

Over the hills and far away

Merrily on my way

1995 came quickly

Crept right up and now it's hit me

Seems the mayor of a busy city

Don't know where the days go

Build a bridge and move the highway

Spend the rest and mend the byways

Someone wrote things across my driveway

And someone broke my windows

And I see on the news some identity

With a young man's views on society

Said there's no room for guys like me

But how the hell would he know?

Over the hills and far away

I'm gonna understand one day

What the other half believe in

If it's real or just deceiving

So until I find that day, I'll go along my way

And I'll look back on my life

And I'll know I lived it right

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do

Over the hills and far away

Merrily on my way

Over the hills and faraway

Merrily on my way