The Road That Has No End (Electro Opera Version) Lyrics

Hast ever tramped along the road that has no end?

The far brown winding road, your one fast friend

A tattered weather-beaten swag, a silent mate to send

His dumb warm comfort to the heart, a fount where dreams ascend

There's wondrous freedom on the road that has no end

A man's heart glows, his spirit leaps to blend

Its joy of life with fierce wind's gust upon his face: to lend

Its cry to Nature's tumult, full and shrill, as twilight shades descend

The flowers bloom along the road that has no end

Cool breezes blow, the gum trees sway and bend

The wild doves woo, and softly coo their soothing notes and mend

Heart's throbbing pain to sweet content and peace lights on the mind's sad trend

There's pain and toil along the road that has no end

A sinking heart, and weary feet that spend

Their strength, and lag and crave respite; and dim tired eyes that tend

To close their heavy lids upon the stinging dusts that upward wend

There are sweet still hours along the road that has no end

'Neath twinkling stars when night's deep shades o'erpend

A man's eyes shine with gathered tears, and memories come to rend

His straining heart strings, while above the paling lights his mood commend

I love the road, the swagman's road that has no end

I love its joys, that pains and toils transcend

It is my dreams, the life that fills my heart

And when death comes and would my peacefulness amend

I pray that God may let my soul depart with my tattered swag beside me

'Mid my friends that never chide me, and my face towards the distant clouded hill

Where leads the far brown winding road that has no end