Wooden Ships Lyrics
Wooden Ships (木制的船) - Nellie McKay
If you smile at me you know I will understand
'Cause that is something everybody
Everywhere does in the same language
Well I can see by your coat my friend
That you're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please who won
You must try some of my purple berries
Yes I been eating them for six or seven weeks now
Haven't got sick once probably keep us both alive
Wooden ships on the water very free
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline let us be
Very free and easy
Sail away where the morning sun goes high
Sail away
Where the wind blows sweet and young birds fly
Take a sister then by her hand
Lead her far from this barren land
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cry
Stare as all you human feelings die
We are leaving you don't need us
Go and take a sister then by her hand
Lead her far from this foreign land
Far away where we might laugh again
We are leaving you don't need us
Sailing ships on the water very free
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline let us be
Very free and easy