Who needs advice from cardinals?
Who votes for Governor Generals?
Who'll offer those fellas amnesty?
Who's been touched by Her Majesty?
Of contradicted history,
Confusion by formality,
Put into lists and categories,
A marriage by authority.

To the young eyes across the sea,
Who live and return to sanctuary
Of defiant tales in stone
In a higher prayer alone
In the brightest chains of gold
In the furthest place from home

Of victory in the high seas
Of doing business with crazies
Of commentators, visionaries
Say who wore what in the A-list
Where there once was a slaughter,
Statues of great explorers
A flag engraved in a gold plaque
One quarter Union Jack

To the young eyes across the sea,
Who live and return to sanctuary
Of defiant tales in stone
In a higher prayer alone
In the brightest chains of gold
In the furthest place from home

Tales in stone, a prayer alone
The brightest chains of gold
A prayer alone
The furthest place from home

Of defiant tales in stone
In a higher prayer alone
In the brightest chains of gold
In the furthest place from home