Over glad lives sometimes sad lives North East the clouds are streaming

Over joy and over heartache to a place that glads the heart

Over working days and idle to the land that gives you meaning

Back to the friends and family that were never meant to part

Chorus

All the way

Spinning back where touchstone houses drive your fears away

All the way

Though circumstance and fortune make you roam

All the way

Where familiar sights and smells will dry your tears away

(Over rich and over poor over harmony and war) last verse

Oh the sky goes all the way home

So you work to build a life as you watch your children growing

Each new generation just trying to prove it's worth

And where your parents toiled the river ever flowing

Past the farm and factory through the land that gave you birth

The rain that shapes the gritstone runs down to the river

Wheels turn in dark water as it rolls down to the foam

And the pausing man looks seaward where the elemental giver

Burns the waters up to heaven and the clouds are riding home