From the cradle of England

  To a foreign exchange

  Thorough the clamour of long years away

  I never lost sight of

  The reason that I left you:

  To return to you one day



  From the bleak and familiar

  To the tropical strange

  Through the glamour of empires abroad

  I never abandoned

  The hope of reclaiming

  My legitimate reward



  When you thought of me

  If you had the time

  You never would have known

  The mountains I'd climb



  I won't be without again, woman

  You won't drive me out again, woman

  And as you come to learn 

  All that *I've done was for you

  You'll see what obsession can do

  Woman



  So the unschooled outcast

  The irascible youth

  Has become all the things you desired

  I took all they offered

  And learned their deceptions

  All relentlessly acquired



  And the eyes of the traveller

  See an obvious truth

  You've become all the things you've denied

  And the loss of ambition

  Was colouring your reason

  As the pleasure in you died



  When you thought of me

  Had me on your mind

  You never would have dreamed

  Of the riches I'd find



  I won't be without again, woman

  You won't drive me out again, woman

  And as you come to learn

  All that I've done was for you

  You'll see what obsession can do

  Woman