Owen Young - We'll Go Sailing Lyrics

We were two kids from the same small town
Where all the old people knew our names
It was the kind of place where if you failed
You could always choose the town to blame
She could run like the wild west wind
In her eyes you'd see the rim of the earth
The hand I was dealt I played close to my chest
Afraid of finding nothing in my birth
She lived on a side street by a wrecker's yard
Surrounded by industrial gray
But when we sat together on her front step
It would all dissolve away
And we'd go sailing sailing sailing out to sea
Sailing in a little boat searching for freedom's key
She was always dreaming of her escape
But I couldn't see the use
She left for better things the first chance she got
I stayed and mostly squandered my youth
I could tell she was travelling 'long hard and rough road
When I'd hear from her from time to time
She knew how to put on a bright face for the world
But deep inside the dream was losing its shine
She once called from between elsewhere and nowhere
I heard her words but couldn't follow the plot
I pictured the eyes that held the rim of the earth
And wondered if she ever still thought
About sailing sailing sailing out to sea
Sailing in a little boat searching for freedom's key
One day I found that she was simply gone
Dead silence from the end of the line
I realized too late I loved the wild west wind
It had been a part of me all the time
You won't know how much life will ask of you
Until you think you might come up short
You won't know where the wind will take your sails
Until you lose the bonds of port
From elsewhere to nowhere and in between
I still look for her for all I'm worth
And when I find where the wild west wind
Meets up with the rim of the earth
We'll go sailing sailing sailing out to sea
Sailing in a little boat searching for freedom's key
Sailing sailing sailing