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This is my church
It stands so tall and proud
It has done for all time

It has no walls
Yet its vast halls
Reach from shore to shore

To whatever shore
You know as your own
We stand as one, we stand as alone

We are born
From the same womb
Hewn from the same stone

From the frozen Baltic
I watched sunrise over Athena
Walked the battlefields of Flanders
And saw duskfall at Cintra

Beneath the Spires of Sofia
Fields of crosses at Arnhem
Armenius stood tall in Teuteborg
Senatus Populusque Romanus

To the fjords of Hordaland
Shadows of ancient Albion
At the shore of a 1000th lake
Saint Vitus dance in Praha

Yet when to Ireland we Return
I know that I am home at last
And every sun that sets
Takes me closer to her Earth

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lateralus518 On Nov 18, 2008

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2008-11-18 20:42:34

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by MortisCZ

16y ago

Just to sumarize all those places they mention:

Baltic Sea - In between of Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Middle Europe Athena - Capital city of Greece Flanders - large area amidst France, Belgium and Netherlands Sintra / Cintra - One of the most western places in Portugal Sofia - Capital of Bulgary Arnhem - a city in Netherlands, place with cruel history Teuteborg - highlands, specifically a forest in Germany SPQR - the Senate and People of Rome Hordaland - county of Norway Albion - Dover Shores of Britain 1000th lake - Finland is often called the country of thousand lakes Praga - My beloved capital city

The song meaning is pretty obvious, basically it's about that everyone in Europe is from the same stone, from the same womb...

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