The Grateful Dead
Lost Sailor (Live at Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA, November 1, 1985)
[Verse 1]
Compass card is spinning
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
Yeah, there's a price for being free

[Bridge]
Hear the sea birds cry
There's a ghost wind blowin'
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'rе a lost sailor
You've been way too long at sea
Now the shorе lights beckon
Yeah, there's a price for being free
Got to pay for being free

[Outro]
Just loose and free and drifting
Drifting and drifting
Maybe going on a dream
Maybe going on a feeling
You really drift your life away
There's no anchor on it, nothing to keep you from drifting away
Ooh, drifting and dreaming, hey
Drifting and dreaming
Maybe going on a dream
Maybe going on a feeling, hey
'Cause there's a place you've never been
Maybe a place you've never seen
You can hear her calling on the wind
Hey hey
Drifting and dreaming, drifting and dreaming, hey
Maybe going on a dream now
Maybe going on a feeling, feeling, feeling