Down Where The Ships Come In Lyrics

Time goes slow

Hear the lighthouse creaking in the wind

When there's no place you can go

You have to learn just how to bend

But I used to be one of the sailors

And I used to be one with the sea

And I used to be one of the things

That I wanted to be.

Now I go down where the ships come in

Down where the ships come in.

I traded the song of the first bell at sea

And the feel of the wheel in the rain

All the treasures of forgotten love

For a diamond ball and a chain.

But I've taken my turn at the tiller

And I've taken my turn at the whores

And now it's my turn not to turn at all

Like a trawler pulling at its moors

A trawler pulling at its moors.

All of my wishes and all of my schemes

Have left me exactly as planned

With no reason to worry and no one to fear

And nothing but time on my hands.

But I used to be one of the sailors

I swept over the sea like the wind

And now it's just me with no reason to be

Down where the ships come in

Down where the ships come in.