Sailing Nowhere

This isn't my story for I'm just a boat

It's really my captain who's barely afloat

For we finally made Scotland in six months and a day

To bring back his lover who promised she'd wait

But upon our arrival a message was relayed

His lover had married, her promise betrayed

So he said, "Boys I'm sorry but I'm leaving you here,"

Then the heart-broken captain and me disappeared

Now we're sailing nowhere

Slowly we wander across seven seas

Sailing nowhere

It's the one destination his heart can be free

The Tropic of Cancer, warm tropical days

He can't see their beauty, he just sees her face

For all of the wind in his mainsail has died

She set him adrift with those hurricane lies

I secretly hope that we circle forever

Just me and the captain alone

I'd carry him through all the wind in the weather

The ocean could be our new home

I feel all his sadness through the soles of his boots

When he stands by my railing beneath the full moon

His tears soak my timbers like a summertime wave

But the salt of his sorrows, I can't wash away

So we're sailing nowhere

Slowly we wander across seven seas

Sailing nowhere

It's the one destination his heart can be

Sailing nowhere

Slowly we wander across seven seas

Sailing nowhere

It's the one destination his heart can be free