Wooden Ships lyrics

If you smile at me I will understand

'Cause that is something everybody

everywhere does in the same language

I can see by your coat my friend you're from the other side

There's just one thing I've got to

know, can you tell me please, who won

Say can I have some of your purple berries

Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now,

Haven't got sick once

Probably keep us both alive

Wooden ships on the water very free and easy

You know the way it's supposed to be

Silver people on the shoreline, let us be

Talking about very free and easy

Horror grips us as we watch you die

All we can do is echo your anguished cries

Stare as all human feelings die

We are leaving, you don't need us

Go take a sister, then, by the hand

Lead her away from this foreign land

Far away, where we might laugh again

We are leaving, you don't need us

And it's a fair wind blowing

warm out of the south over my shoulder

Guess I'll set a course and go