[Unrecorded Prologue: From the Album Notes]
Airport scurry flurry faces
Parade of passers by
People going many places
With a smile or just a sigh
Waiting waiting pass the time
Another cigarette
Get in line - gate thirty-nine
The time is not here yet (end)

[Verse 1]
Why try? I know why
This feeling inside me says it's time I was gone
Clear head, new life ahead
It's time I was king now, not just one more pawn

[Chorus]
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye, my dear
My ship isn't coming, and I just can't pretend

[Verse 2]
Moonrise, thoughtful eyes
Staring back at me from the window beside
No fright or hindsight
Leaving behind that empty feeling inside
[Chorus]
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye, my dear
My ship isn't coming, and I just can't pretend, whoa!

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye, my dear
My ship isn't coming, and I just can't pretend

[Interlude]
Start a new chapter, find what I'm after
It's changing every day
The change of a season's enough of a reason
To want to get away
Quiet and pensive, my thoughts apprehensive
The hours drift away
Leaving my homeland, playing a lone hand
My life begins today

[Chorus]
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye, my dear
My ship isn't coming, and I just can't pretend
My ship isn't coming, and I just can't pretend
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye, my dear
My ship isn't coming, and I just can't pretend
My ship isn't coming, and I just can't pretend
My ship isn't coming, and I just can't pretend