Long Way Round

Intro There's a short cut over the hill and I have never once been tempted Verse I take the long way round I take the long way round the water Twenty extra minutes past the boatyard and I get there when I get there The short cut takes the legs off you it's all up and then all down And a man who's fought a hill by nine o'clock has got nothing left for noon Pre Chorus Fast is a way of arriving tired slow is a way of arriving Chorus Long way round long way round I take the long way round Long way round long way round and I'm still walking Post Chorus Flat road easy breathing same time every day I have made it every morning for eleven thousand days Verse My brother took the hill for years and he beat me by a quarter hour Then his knees went in the autumn and now he doesn't come at all I don't say that to be cruel he's the better man of us two I only say the road you can keep is the only road you have Pre Chorus Fast is a way of arriving tired slow is a way of arriving Chorus Long way round long way round I take the long way round Long way round long way round and I'm still walking Post Chorus Flat road easy breathing same time every day I have made it every morning for eleven thousand days Verse Everybody wants the straight line straight line is a young man's dream Nothing straight has ever lasted in a country made of hills So I bend and I go under I go round and I go on And the sea is on my left hand every morning of my life Verse And the long way has the boatyard and the long way has the birds And a man who never sees a heron is a man who saved eleven minutes I have saved no minutes in my life and I have seen ten thousand herons Bridge Let them pass me on the rise let them wave and let them go I will see them at the harbour I will see them there at nine Same as yesterday at nine same as I'll be there tomorrow Verse So the hill can keep its glory and the short cut keeps its dead I'll be down here on the flat road being nothing very fast Break Long way round long way round Chorus Long way round long way round I take the long way round Long way round long way round and I'm still walking Post Chorus Flat road easy breathing same time every day I have made it every morning for eleven thousand days Outro Long way round long way round and I'm still walking Long way round long way round same time every day