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

That girl is long gone Boy you missed the boat, it just sailed away She's not drowning in her yesterdays Betcha never thought I'd be that strong Well this girl is long gone This girl is long gone, long gone It's so like you just to show up at my door And

Sail away tomorrow Sailin' far away To find it steal or borrow But I'll be there someday, yeah Time will show When, I don't know If you're driftin' on an empty ocean With no wind to fill your sail The future, your horizon

Sail me away to a distant shore, where every thing's fine A thousand years, one day for every life Just keep on going, we'll find you a home underground, in a thousand years Day after day, I feel myself slowing down, what does it mean? The air has

Ooh, one of these days Gonna get off of this highway Wake up in Sun Bay With the sunshine on my face Saint Christopher on a silver chain Say a prayer and sail away I wish I was a pirate shipwreck down in Mexico Where the oceans turn to silver and the

Sailin' away on the crest of a wave It's like magic Rollin' and ridin' and slippin' & slidin' And you, and your sweet desire, You took me, higher and higher It's a livin' thing,

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,

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away Don't you hear me calling you In the land that our grandchildren knew In the year of '39 assembled here the volunteers In the days when lands were few Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny

Girl, don't go away mad Girl, just go away That's alright, that's okay We were walkin' through some youth We could sail away Or catch a freight train Or a rocket ship into outer space Nothin' left to do Too many things were said

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 And we rely on each other, ah ha From one lover to another, ah ha Making love with each other, ah ha