Terra Firma - Todd Rundgren

I am Christopher Columbus on the bounding main

Searching for a new world

And I don’t know when I’m back again

If I can find my way back home again

I am scanning the horizon but there’s nothing there to see

Wondering where to turn to

And the quest seems more like a fantasy

With every passing moment it seems to be

And that’s the thing that frightens me

Whenever I feel afraid

I put my faith in terra firma

And I’m never far away

Because you’re my terra firma

I am on Apollo Seven heading into space

Where no man has ever ventured

And at times I feel so out of place

Then the moon looks like your shining face, yeah

I see terra far below me — green and white and blue

I know you are down there somewhere

But I feel so far away from you

Hoping that you’re thinking of me too

Even though I know you always do

Whenever I feel alone

I come home to terra firma

A place I can call my own

Because you’re my terra firma

Whenever I feel afraid

I put my faith in terra firma

And I’m never far away

Because you’re my terra firma

I am off to great adventures, leaving you behind

Far beyond the border

And I have no clue what I will find

But the thought of home never leaves my mind, no

Though the minutes stretch to hours

And the hours stretch to days

Through the trials and tribulations

When it seems like I’m so far away

And it’s just too high a price to pay

There is one thing I can always say

Whenever I feel afraid

I put my faith in terra firma

And I’m never far away

Because you’re my terra firma

Whenever I feel alone

I come home to terra firma

A place I can call my own

Because you’re my terra firma

Whenever I feel afraid

I put my faith in terra firma

And I’m never far away

Because you’re my terra firma

Whenever I feel alone

I come home to terra firma

The place I can call my own because

The place I can call my own because

The place I can call my own because

Because you’re my terra firma