Sailor - Michael McDermott

Time wasted waiting and time contemplating my life

I’ve been thinkin' and drinkin'

But it feels like I’m sinkin' tonight

Sing alleluia, but don’t let 'em fool ya, it’s just temptation

I act as if it doesn’t matter, while I step out of time

To the clatter of generations

Like a sailor, I’m driftin'

Into the hungry mouth of the storm

Like an orphan I’m searching for a place that’s safe and warm

Like a scavenger I’ll find the pieces

Of our lives which have been torn

Like a sailor I’ll surrender unto the sea

Like a fire I’ll be reborn

Blue tide tumbles upon itself

The night would never mistake me for someone else

For it knows

Blue desert rumbles my formless track

«I'll be dead before I ever come back» she told me

Driftin' so endlessly, movin' so friendlessly

Under the candlelit moon

If there’s a chance for contact send some word

To the dark haired girl on Pine and Third

That I’ll be comin' soon

Like a sailor in the dark hand of mystery

I’ll search the sea and it’s soul

Like a knight I’ll guard your frozen gates

With a heart that burns like coal

Like a vagrant I stand bewildered for I know not which way to got

Like a sailor I’ll surrender unto the sea

Like a fire I’ll lose control

Marking the days, marking the years

I exit in dreams, dreams and fears of longing

Drifting into this mystical fog

I looked and swore I thought I saw the dawning

Like a sailor, I’m driftin'

Into the hungry mouth of the storm

Like an orphan I’m searching for a place that’s safe and warm

Like a scavenger I’ll find the pieces

Of our lives which have been torn

Like a sailor I’ll surrender unto the sea

Like a fire I’ll be reborn