[Verse 1]
You lay, snuggling into sheets, murmuring something quietly in your sleep
A wide bed and fresh sheets - a new day behind the window...
Yet not long ago a bunk, a fishy-smelling blanket in there
Waves crashing into the deck and bossman's raspy voice...
[Chorus]
All this was, went by - only a memory stayed...
I'll never again feel the vibrations of the deck when cables play...
There's only a home and a garden - and like this until the death
Yet old sailing ships still sail on the seas...
[Verse 2]
Don't be mad at me dear that it's hard to live with me
That I forgot to buy milk and wash the dishes...
Not long ago the ship was my second home -
There you didn't stand in lines, there was no place for the evil...
[Chorus]
All this was, went by - only a memory stayed...
I'll never again feel the vibrations of the deck when cables play...
There's only a home and a garden - and like this until the death
Yet old sailing ships still sail on the seas...
[Verse 3]
A lot of time will pass before I get used to this -
Forty years on the sea closed into one day...
How the doctor can know that I long for the sea
That I'm suffocating on the land, that I dream of a deck full of fish...
[Chorus]
All this was, went by - only a memory stayed...
I'll never again feel the vibrations of the deck when cables play...
There's only a home and a garden - and like this until the death
Yet old sailing ships still sail on the seas...
[Instrumental]
[Chorus]
All this was, went by - only a memory stayed...
I'll never again feel the vibrations of the deck when cables play...
There's only a home and a garden - and like this until the death
Yet old sailing ships still sail on the seas...
[Verse 4]
I know that you resent me - we were meant to go to friends
I've met a friend from a voyage, he leaves for the sea today...
Later I've sat on a quay, looking at the port with tears -
There will be a day when I leave it - but for now...
[Chorus]
All this was, went by - only a memory stayed...
I'll never again feel the vibrations of the deck when cables play...
There's only a home and a garden - and like this until the death
Yet old sailing ships still sail on the seas...
Yet old sailing ships on the seas...