Lost Sailor

Grateful Dead · Beyond Description 1973-1989 [2005]

Compass card is spinning

Helm is swinging to and fro

Oh, where is the dog star

Oh, where's the moon



You're a lost sailor

You've been too long at sea



Some days the gales are howling

Some days the sea is still as glass

Oh, raise the main sail

Oh, lash the mast



You're a lost sailor

You've been too long at sea

Now the shorelines beckon

Yeah, there's a price for being free



Hear the sea birds cryin' and there's a ghost wind blowing

And it's calling you, to that misty swirling sea

Till the chains of your dreams are broken

No place in this world you can be



You're a lost sailor

You've been away too long at sea

Now the shorelines beckon

Yeah, there's a price for being free



Driftin', you're driftin'

Yeah, driftin' and dreamin'

'Cause there's a place you've never been

Maybe a place you've never seen now

You can hear them callin' on the wind



Oh, you drift your life away

[Incomprehensible]

Hey baby, drift your life away

Driftin' and dreamin'



Really goin' on a dream now

Really goin' on a dream, really goin' on a dream

Really goin' on a dream