Your Tall Ship Songtext
von Peter Hammill

Far, so far away
Surely you remember
Log-book pages frayed
That fanned the flames of long ago
Gutted in the grate
Shadows in the embers
Look away
Look for hope

Voices on the air
Running with the current
Wind and tide set fair
Ship to shore, the message goes
All in love is fair
Across the raging torrent
Sail away
Sail for home
Look away
Look for home


Landlocked lovers
Landlocked friends
In procession
All rites of passage have an end
Look away
Sail away
Sail your tall ship home

We are ocean born
Far from any harbour
From our moorings torn
Ghosts that fly for all we know
Turn to face the storm
That′s building off to starboard
Sail away
Sail for home
Look away
Look for home

Look away
In the roaring forties
Look away
In the roaring forties


Landlocked lovers
Littoral friends
The succession
Never ends
The spirits willing
To carry on
All rites of passage make us strong
Sail away
Sail away
Sail your tall ship home