From Rags to Riches lyrics

I leave the home of a lifetime

Like any son

I have hope and good intentions

Wandering into the daybreak

I learn as I go

To fall laughing into the water

The sticks and the stones

Are your broken promises

I wait too long

To go from rags to riches

I am in love, I am in love with a feeling

A wild wild sky, a wild wild sky

Fences and tumble down bridges

Surround and divide

I wear a coat of many colours

Of many colours

The sticks and the stones

Are your broken promises

We wait too long

To go from rags to riches

We are in love, we are in love with a feeling

A wild wild sky, a wild wild sky

The people are leaving the squalor

They're leaving the houses and fires

And starting out

We find the waiting country

The sticks and the stones

Are your broken promises

We wait no longer

We go from rags to riches

We are in love, we are in love with a feeling

A wild wild sky, a wild wild sky

• Artist:Karine Polwart
• Album:Karine Polwart's Scottish Songbook (2019)