I've been to the rim and the galaxy's core And planets unnumbered I've seen in my questing At times I was sure I would never be resting And all of that time I was asking "What for?" I left as a youth and I wandered the stars Feeling a pull that I chose to ignore Knowing full well there was something much more Than all of the wonders I saw in the sky I called as I left here before Goodbye to Sol and Terra Farewell to moonlight and sand Deep greens and blues Are the colors you use To haunt me wherever I land In ways that I don't understand And always the image of one golden day And one shade of blue in the sky and the ocean Would stir in my mind like a sorcerer's potion And then I'd raise planet and wander away Worlds without number I'd visit and leave Then one of them finally urged me to stay I heard my own soul in the trees and the clay I'd come the full circle and found my way home And I knew I would nevermore say Goodbye to Sol and Terra Farewell to moonlight and sand Deep greens and blues Are the colors you use To haunt me wherever I land In ways that I don't understand