I have been lost for a long time
I've been late for the world that's gone in the blink of an eye
but the questions they come, just when you go
and the tides they go out, the ships they come in
I say it's all a wash, but it's washing over my life
so bring me a dream, tell me a story
I'm lost without sleep, I'm lost when I'm sleeping
the sound of the sea singing one thousand goodbyes
and the songs about the sea keep washing over me
I have been lost, but I have been brave
I've been saving my sight, the better to see how you shine
and a ship's not a stone, nor cannon, nor castle
no blood on my tongue, just salt in the water
just so you know, just so you know you're alive
and sometimes I'm a sail, skimming oe'r the water
gone far from the shore, gone like the others
and full of the sound of wind over water we fly
and the songs of the sea keep washing over me
I can't wake up, and I cannot dream
of no dream but this one dream til the day that I die
and sometimes a ship breaks on the shoreline
the sea never does, it just keeps on singing
the moon into tides, the land into water all night
and if I'm a sail, then where is the wind from
and if I'm the wind then where is the wind from
and I cannot tell, it's all in the ocean I find
and the songs about the sea keep washing over me
I have been here, all the long time
and when I was feared lost, I was just lost in your mind
and still there are ships, sailing the sea
and still there are stars, over the water
and still there are ships, sailing the sea
still there are stars, over the water...