Lost Sailor lyrics

Song information

Artist: Grateful Dead
Album: Go To Heaven

Lyrics

Compass card is spinning, helm is swinging to and fro
Oh, where is the dog star, oh, where's the moon
You're a lost sailor, been away too long at sea

Somedays the gales are howling, sometimes the sea is still as glass
Oh, raise the main sail, oh, lash the mast
You're a lost sailor, been away too long at sea
Now the shorelines beckon, there is a price for being free

There's a sea bird cryin' and there's a ghost wind blowing
And it's calling you, to that misty swirling sea
Till the chains of your dreams are broken
No place in this world you can be

You're a lost sailor, been away too long at sea
Now the shorelines beckon, there is a price for being free

You pay for being free, I'll tell ya freedom don't come easy
Free don't always come for free
Sometimes it's hard to know what to believe in

Where to go, who to go, where to be, who to be
That means you're driftin'.... driftin'
Yeah driftin' and dreamin', really goin' on a dream now
Really goin' on a feelin', really goin' on a feelin'
Driftin', driftin' and dreamin'

Cause it's a place you've never been
Maybe a place you've never seen now
You can hear them callin' on the wind
Driftin' and dreamin', driftin' and dreamin'
Really goin' on a dream now, really goin' on a dream now
Really goin' on a dream now