And as you leave You must know you are beloved Before you leave Remember I was with you I won't hold you back beloved Austere enthroned in white grandeur A whisper of where you sailed ahead

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,

Lying beside you, here in the dark Feeling your heartbeat with mine Softly you whisper, you're so sincere How could our love be so blind We sailed on together We drifted apart And here you are, by my side So now I come to you with open arms

With the first light and the little fragile moon I was out on the porch now I'm ready for doom And it's funny how it all came to be The way you so plainly chose to stare at me And the afternoon embraces you like a million worried hands And I want to look

They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors, the circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner, they've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker, the

We'll fight 'til we fall Swashbucklers 'til we die To the end of time we will sail the seas With cutlasses in hand We'll terrorize the land Though the hands of fate may strike us down Gather round and listen As I tell you now this tale The grim legacy of

A nation in despair, weakened by war, defeated Lost their pride in Versailles A former prisoner, with a vision or a grand delusion Rise to power in the Reich Rebuilding an army Make the nation proud Disregarding the treaty Secret plans for "lebensraum"

Sail with me into the dark (sail) Blame it on my ADD baby Sail with me sail with me (sail) La la la la la, la la la la la ooh (La la la la la, la la la la la ooh) This is how I show my love I made it in my mind because

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

And we rely on each other, ah ha From one lover to another, ah ha 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 Oh baby alright