Sailor's Snug Harbor

SAILOR'S SNUG HARBOR

I don't miss going out on the sea
The ocean isn't a friend to me
All she wants to swallow me
And pull me down

All those men that were lost to the waves
Haunt me, pleading they still can be saved
Can't remember how many days
I've lived on survivor's time

I feel much lighter now that I'm dry
Feet on dirt, with a bed by a fire
I cut a feather with every stride
And each step is steady

But the nights are always the same
Drowning in dreams, I'm back on the waves
And the sails have blown away

Leaving us adrift on the green
Tired and dried out and little to eat
Eye to eye with the sailor-soul thief
Taking us one at a time

I promised then if I was spared
I'd collapse in a comfortable chair
Snug and slippered, without a care
I'd never sail again

But the nights are always the same
Drowning in dreams, I'm back on the waves
And the sails have blown away

And I cannot go on in this way
Drowning in dreams, I'm back on the waves
Every night swallowed in a storm
And the sails have blown away