This is just the way it's meant to be Sail away, sail away They're flying, they're styling, the President is smiling, We're loosin', it's confusin', we're beggin', they're refusin' Can't replace it, erase it, come back to hell and face it Without lying,

Islands in the stream That is what we are No one in between How can we be wrong Sail away with me To another world Baby when I met you there was peace unknown I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb I was soft inside

Dreams the world far away Eva flies away In this cruel children's game There's no friend to call her name Eva sails away The Good in her will be my sunflower field 6:30 winter morn Snow keeps falling, silent dawn A rose by any other name

The people turned away Down by the seaside See the boats go sailin' Can the people hear What the little fish are sayin' Oh, oh, the people turned away Oh, the people turned away Down in the city streets, See all the folk go racin', racin'

(Better save the women and children first) Or could this be love? You know that magic often does And I see lonely ships upon the water Sail away with someone's daughter Yea, yea, one, two, one, two, three, four Out upon the islands on a cool summer night

Take me on and on Until the world has gone The stars that shine so brightly They call to me I dream of how it might be Somewhere far away The chains that hold you Those chains will soon be gone Sail upon the ocean

Catch the wind, see us spin But the wind won't blow You really shouldn't go That you will be mine By takin' our time, ooh Sail away, leave today Way up high in the sky, hey whoa Only goes to show And if I say to you tomorrow

There's a river in Evening ember glow And you're wishing you could see How far it flows Rolling on to an endless sea You'd be well on your way If you could only set sail. But dreams can drift away And sails can fill with doubt

Catch the wind, see us spin But the wind won't blow You really shouldn't go That you will be mine By takin' our time, ooh Sail away, leave today Way up high in the sky, hey whoa Only goes to show And if I say to you tomorrow

No fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd In her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud She got her own world in the city I seen a girl on a one way corridor Stealing down a wrong way street For all the world like an urban