Lyrics:

I am travelling on a train
Back in my homeland once again
Though it’s not quite as I recall
Half-remembered if at all
I’ll cross the border fixed between
Reality and dream
And offer up this dedication
To my imagined nation

So pour me a drink
Let me leave my cares behind
Allow me to paint
A picture in my mind
In my mind

When I was young
My mother told me all about
Her cousins, neighbours, uncles
And my aunts
Augusts gathered for the dance
Jigs, reels, polkas, sets of four
Sawdust leaping off the floor
Life it was a celebration
In mothers own imagined nation

So pour me a drink
Let me leave my cares behind
Allow me to paint
This picture in my mind

Of rolling awake
In dreams from hill yo hill
The skys half-done with weeking
Though we hear her old cry still
A wild, ravaging, scared, ungovernable sea
My own imagined nation
Is coming back to me

Now these books and films
Will tell you of the starving and the poor
And the laundries where they sent
Girls of her kind to repent
Sure that was long before
This sleeping cat would dare to roar
Everybody knew their station
In gods own imagined nation

So pour me a drink
Let me leave my cares behind
Allow me to paint
This picture in my mind

Of rolling awake
In dreams from hill to hill
The sky’s half-done with weeping
Though we hear her old cry still
A wild, ravaged, scared, ungovernable sea
My own imagined nation is coming back
To me, back to me.