up here in the crow s nest i am swimming through the breeze one last memory from the sun as it is sinking by degrees and high above an albatross is following its light and i will sing to her as she flies by on this beautiful night ahead is the horizon always changing it stands fast far behind me are the desert islands shipwrecks of the past and i have seen the cannons sounding in the early morning light but i have left my battles for the day on this beautiful night below me all the sailors they re on this journey too and each of us must make our unknown way upon the blue so tonight we cast our worries float jetsam on the tide and we ll watch them echo far away on this beautiful night flat earth may end we may sail off the edge and not be seen again so i sing and hope my song will form a rope of golden chords so that i can rescue someone else should they fall overboard because some of us are pirates and some of us are damned but all of us need all of us to ever find the land and though the passage of good hope may seem like a needle s eye we re floating on tranquility on this beautiful night up here in the crows nest i am swimming through the breeze one last memory from the sun