wooden ships
by David Crosby,
Stephen Stills,
Paul Kantner
Stills: If you smile at me,
I will understand
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.
Theres just one thing
I got to know,
Can you tell me please, who won?
Stills: Say, can
I have some of your purple berries?
Ive been eating them for six or seven weeks now, havent got sick once.
Stills: Probably keep us both alive.
Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy,
Easy, you know the way its supposed to be ,
Silver people on the shoreline, let us be,
Talkin bout 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 dont need us.
Go, take your sister then, by the hand, lead her away from this foreign land,
Far away , where we might laugh again,
We are leaving - you dont need us.
And its a fair wind, blowin warm,
Out of the south over my shoulder,
Guess Ill set a course and go...