Songwriter: Ben Watt Tracey Thorn
Producer: Everything But The Girl
[Chorus]
Gabriel, wherever you roam
You know the longest way around is the shortest way home
Gabriel, wherever you go
You know the longest way around is the shortest way home
[Verse 1]
When you were here there was a beating of wings
In your heart doing senseless things
When you were here there was a forest fire
Raging in you like a wild desire
[Chorus]
But Gabriel, wherever you roam
You know the longest way around is the shortest way home
[Bridge]
Everything you did only skimmed the surface of the day
And deep inside there was an emptiness that would not go away
Gabriel
Gabriel (Yeah)
Gabriel
[Verse 2]
When you were here there was a forest fire
Raging in you like a wild desire
When you were here there was a beating of wings
In your heart doing senseless things
[Chorus]
But Gabriel, wherever you roam
You know the longest way around is the shortest way home (Yeah)
The longest way around is the shortest way home
The shortest way home
Gabriel
Gabriel, wherever you roam
You know the longest way around is the shortest way home
Gabriel, wherever you go
You know the longest way around is the shortest way home
[Verse 1]
When you were here there was a beating of wings
In your heart doing senseless things
When you were here there was a forest fire
Raging in you like a wild desire
[Chorus]
But Gabriel, wherever you roam
You know the longest way around is the shortest way home
[Bridge]
Everything you did only skimmed the surface of the day
And deep inside there was an emptiness that would not go away
Gabriel
Gabriel (Yeah)
Gabriel
[Verse 2]
When you were here there was a forest fire
Raging in you like a wild desire
When you were here there was a beating of wings
In your heart doing senseless things
[Chorus]
But Gabriel, wherever you roam
You know the longest way around is the shortest way home (Yeah)
The longest way around is the shortest way home
The shortest way home
Gabriel
- The Only Living Boy in New York (1993)
- Worldwide (Deluxe Edition) (2013)
- Missing
- Night and Day
- Wrong
- Five Fathoms
- Rollercoaster
- Mirrorball
- Single
- Walking Wounded
- Tender Blue
- Downhill Racer (Kenny Dope Mix)
- British Summertime
- The Heart Remains a Child
- Lullaby of Clubland (Matty Heilbronn Soulflower instrumental)
- Letting Love Go
- Charmless Callous Ways
- Fighting Talk
- The Spice of Life
- The Dustbowl
- Disenchanted
- Never Could Have Been Worse
- Love Is Strange
- Walking Wounded (Spring Heel Jack Hard vocal mix)
- Ugly Little Dreams
- Temperamental (Da Deepah Dub)