Lost Sailor / Saint of Circumstance (Live at Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT, September 23, 1982)

Lyrics

[Lost Sailor] [Verse 1] Compass card is spinnin' Your elm is swingin' to and fro Ooh, where's the dog star? Ooh, where's the moon? [Chorus] You're a lost sailor You've been way too long at sea [Verse 2] Some days the gales are howling Some days the sea is still as glass Ooh, reef the main sail Ooh, lash the mast [Chorus] You're a lost sailor You've been way too long at sea Now the shore lights beckon You say there's a price for being free [Bridge] Hear the seabirds cryin' And there's a ghost wind blowin' And it's calling you to that misty swirling sea 'Til the chains of your dreams are broken No place in this world you can be [Instrumental Break] [Chorus] You're a lost sailor Been way too long at sea Now the shore lights beckon Yeah, there's a price for being free [Outro] You pay for being free I tell you free don't come easy Free don't always come for free now Sometimes it's hard to know what to believe in Where to go, who to go, where to be, who to be That's means you're drifting Drifting, yeah, drifting and dreaming Maybe going on a dream now Maybe going on a feeling Drifting, drifting and dreaming, yeah 'Cause there's a place you've never been Maybe a place you've never seen now You can hear them calling on the wind, on the wind Drifting and dreaming, drifting and dreaming, yeah Go on and drift your life away, hey, hey, hey, hey Go on and drift your life away now, drifting and dreaming Go on and follow that dream now Maybe going on a dream now, maybe going on a dream now Maybe going a feeling, maybe going on a feeling Feeling, feeling [Saint of Circumstance] [Verse 1] Well, this must be heaven Tonight I cross the line You must be an angel I thought I might never find Was it you I heard singing Oh, when I was chasing dreams? Driven by the wind Like the dust that blows around now [Chorus] When the rain fallin' down Never know now [Verse 2] Got to be heaven 'Cause here's where the rainbows end If this ain't the real thing Well, it's close enough to pretend But when that wind blows When the night's about to fall I can hear the sirens call It's a certain sort of sound [Chorus] When the rain fallin' down now Rain fallin' down, rain fallin' down [Bridge] Holes in what's left of my reason Holes in the knees of my blues Odds against me been increasin' But I'll pull through I never could read no road map No, I don't know what the weather might do But hear that witch wind whinin' See that dog star shinin' I've got a feelin' there's no time to lose No time to lose [Instrumental Break] I never know now Just don't ever know, no [Verse 3] Released from heaven But even rainbows will end Now my sails are fillin' And the wind is willin' And I'm good as gone again I'm still walkin', so I'm sure that I can dance Just a Saint of Circumstance Like a tiger in a trance In the rain fallin' down now Rain' fallin' down (Rain' fallin' down) Rain' fallin' down now (Rain' fallin' down) Rain' fallin' down now (Rain' fallin' down) Rain' fallin' down now (Rain' fallin' down) Rain' fallin' down now (Rain' fallin' down) Rain fallin' down [Instrumental Break] [Outro] Well, I never know now No, never know, no, no Listen I sure don't know what I'm going for But I'm gonna go for it for sure I sure don't know what I'm going for But I'm gonna go for it for sure (Got to) I sure don't know what I'm going for (Just don't know, no, it's hard to say) But I'm gonna go for it for sure ('Cause something makes me do it anyway, you know) I sure don't know what I'm going for (No, I never, never know, no) But I'm going to go for it for sure ('Cause I gotta, gotta, gotta go) I sure don't know what I'm going for (Top of the mountain you can see far and wide now) But I'm gonna go for it for sure (But you still can't see that other mountain's other side now) I sure don't know what I'm going for (So maybe I just go on a dream now) But I'm gonna go for it for sure (Maybe going on a feeling) I sure don't know what I'm going for (I'd like to know, how about you now, how about you?) But I'm gonna go for it for sure (What the fuck you gonna do now?) I sure don't know what I'm going for (Maybe just going on a dream now, hey) But I'm gonna go for it for sure (Maybe going on a feeling, maybe going on a feeling)