I dream of ships and sailors and sea

When the nights are long

I sing forgotten songs

That make me feel free

I belonged among them once

A life long-ago-lived

Full of joy and rum and violence

Oh what wouldn't I give

To go back and do it all again

I know it's not just in my brain

At sea my past will remain

Where the world I used to sail

Was full of love tied with pain

And now I am here to tell the tale