Over The Hills And Far Away lyrics

Artist  : Nightwish 
Song : Over The Hills And Far Away
 


They came for him one winter's
night.
Arrested, he was bound.
They said
there'd been a robbery,
his pistol had been
found.

They marched him to the station
house,
he waited for the dawn.
And as they
led him to the dock,
he knew that he'd been
wronged.
"You stand accused of robbery,"
he
heard the bailiff say.
He knew without an
alibi,
tomorrow's light would mourn his
freedom.

Over the hills and far
away,
for ten long years he'll count the
days.
Over the mountains and the seas,
a
prisoner's life for him there'll be.

He
knew that it would cost him dear,
but yet he
dare not say.
Where he had been that fateful
night,
a secret it must stay.
He had to
fight back tears of rage.
His heart beat like
a drum.
For with the wife of his best
friend,
he spent his final night of
freedom.

Over the hills and far
away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far
from the mountains and the seas,
back in her
arms again he'll be.
Over the hills and far
away.

Over the hills and,
over the
hills and,
over the hills and far
away.

Each night within his prison
cell,
he looks out through the bars.
He
reads the letters that she wrote.
One day
he'll know the taste of freedom.

Over the
hills and far away,
she prays he will return
one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the
seas,
back in his arms again she'll
be.

Over the hills and far away,
he
swears he will return one day.
Far from the
mountains and the seas,
back in her arms again
he'll be.

Over the hills and far
away,
she prays he will return one day.
As
sure as the rivers reach the sea,
back in her
arms is where he'll be.

Over the
hills,
over the hills and far
away.

Over the hills,
over the hills
and far away.