The Grateful Dead
Lost Sailor (Live at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, May 6, 1981)
[Verse 1]
Compass card is spinning
Your elm is swingin' to and fro
Ooh, where's the dog star?
Ooh, where's the moon?

[Chorus]
You're a lost sailor
You've been too long at sea

[Verse 2]
Some days the gales are howling
Some days the sea is still as glass
Ooh, reef the main sail
Ooh, lash the mast

[Chorus]
You're a lost sailor
You've been way too long at sea
Now the shore lights beckon
Oh God, there's a price for being free, free

[Bridge]
Yeah, the seabirds cryin'
And there's a ghost wind blowin'
And it's calling you to that misty swirling sea
'Til the chains of your dreams are broken
No place in this world you can be
[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
You're a lost sailor
And you'vе been too long at sea
Now the shore lights bеckon
Yeah, there's a price for being free

[Outro]
For being free, for being free, being free
Going drifting, going drifting
Drifting and dreaming
Drifting and dreaming
Maybe going on a dream
Maybe going on a feeling
Ooh, drifting and dreaming
Drifting and dreaming
This is a place you've never been
Maybe a face you've never seen now
You can hear it calling on the wind
Drifting and dreaming
Drifting and dreaming
Go on and drift your life away
Drifting and dreaming
Maybe going on a dream now
Going on a dream now
Maybe going on a feeling
Maybe going on a feeling now
Maybe going on a feeling
Maybe going on a feeling
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