In this fair land i'll stay no more

here labor is in vain

I'll seek the mountains far away 

andleave the fertile plain



Where waves of grass and oceans roam

into infinity

I stand ready by the shore

to cross the inland sea.



I am going to the west 

you say you will not go me

you turn your eyes away 

you say you will not follow me 

no matter what I say

I am going to the west 

I am going to the west



I will jorney to the place 

that was shaped by heaven's hand

I will build for me a bow 

where angel's footprints mark the land

where castle rocks and towers high 

kneel to valleys wide and green

all my thoughts are turned to you

my waking hope, my sleeping dream



I am going to the west 

you say you will not go me

you turn your eyes away 

you say you will not follow me 

no matter what I say

I am going to the west 

I am going to the west



And when sun gives way to moon 

and silver starlight fills the sky 

in the arms of these last hills 

is where I'm bound to lie



wind my blanket earth my bed

my canopy a tree '

willows by the riverside 

will whisper me to sleep



I am going to the west 

you say you will not go me

you turn your eyes away 

you say you will not follow me 

no matter what I say

I am going to the west 

I am going to the west

I am going to the west



I am going to the west