A Ship Without A Sail

Ella Fitzgerald · The Essential Collection: Great American Songbook [2007]

I don't know what day it is

Or if it's dark or fair

Somehow that's just the way it is

And I don't really care



I go to this or that place

I seem alive and well

My head is just a hat place

My breast an empty shell

And I've a faded dream to sell



All alone, all at sea

Why does nobody care for me?

When there's no love to hold my love

Why is my heart so frail?

Like a ship without a sail



Out on the ocean

Sailors can use a chart

I'm on the ocean

Guided by just a lonely heart



Still alone, still at sea

Still there's no one to care for me

When there's no hand to hold my hand

Life is a loveless tale

For a ship without a sail



Still alone, still at sea

Still there's no one to care for me

When there's no hand to hold my hand

Life is a love, loveless tale

For a ship without a sail