Lost Sailor / Saint of Circumstance (Live at Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT, September 23, 1982)

[Lost Sailor]

[Verse 1]
Compass card is spinnin'
Your elm is swingin' to and fro
Ooh, where's the dog star?
Ooh, where's the moon?

[Chorus]
You're a lost sailor
You've been way too long at sea

[Verse 2]
Some days the gales are howling
Some days the sea is still as glass
Ooh, reef the main sail
Ooh, lash the mast

[Chorus]
You're a lost sailor
You've been way too long at sea
Now the shore lights beckon
You say there's a price for being free

[Bridge]
Hear the seabirds cryin'
And there's a ghost wind blowin'
And it's calling you to that misty swirling sea
'Til the chains of your dreams are broken
No place in this world you can be

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
You're a lost sailor
Been way too long at sea
Now the shore lights beckon
Yeah, there's a price for being free

[Outro]
You pay for being free
I tell you free don't come easy
Free don't always come for free now
Sometimes it's hard to know what to believe in
Where to go, who to go, where to be, who to be
That's means you're drifting
Drifting, yeah, drifting and dreaming
Maybe going on a dream now
Maybe going on a feeling
Drifting, drifting and dreaming, yeah
'Cause there's a place you've never been
Maybe a place you've never seen now
You can hear them calling on the wind, on the wind
Drifting and dreaming, drifting and dreaming, yeah
Go on and drift your life away, hey, hey, hey, hey
Go on and drift your life away now, drifting and dreaming
Go on and follow that dream now
Maybe going on a dream now, maybe going on a dream now
Maybe going a feeling, maybe going on a feeling
Feeling, feeling

[Saint of Circumstance]

[Verse 1]
Well, this must be heaven
Tonight I cross the line
You must be an angel
I thought I might never find
Was it you I heard singing
Oh, when I was chasing dreams?
Driven by the wind
Like the dust that blows around now

[Chorus]
When the rain fallin' down
Never know now

[Verse 2]
Got to be heaven
'Cause here's where the rainbows end
If this ain't the real thing
Well, it's close enough to pretend
But when that wind blows
When the night's about to fall
I can hear the sirens call
It's a certain sort of sound

[Chorus]
When the rain fallin' down now
Rain fallin' down, rain fallin' down

[Bridge]
Holes in what's left of my reason
Holes in the knees of my blues
Odds against me been increasin'
But I'll pull through
I never could read no road map
No, I don't know what the weather might do
But hear that witch wind whinin'
See that dog star shinin'
I've got a feelin' there's no time to lose
No time to lose

[Instrumental Break]

I never know now
Just don't ever know, no

[Verse 3]
Released from heaven
But even rainbows will end
Now my sails are fillin'
And the wind is willin'
And I'm good as gone again
I'm still walkin', so I'm sure that I can dance
Just a Saint of Circumstance
Like a tiger in a trance
In the rain fallin' down now
Rain' fallin' down (Rain' fallin' down)
Rain' fallin' down now (Rain' fallin' down)
Rain' fallin' down now (Rain' fallin' down)
Rain' fallin' down now (Rain' fallin' down)
Rain' fallin' down now (Rain' fallin' down)
Rain fallin' down

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
Well, I never know now
No, never know, no, no
Listen
I sure don't know what I'm going for
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
I sure don't know what I'm going for
But I'm gonna go for it for sure (Got to)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(Just don't know, no, it's hard to say)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
('Cause something makes me do it anyway, you know)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(No, I never, never know, no)
But I'm going to go for it for sure
('Cause I gotta, gotta, gotta go)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(Top of the mountain you can see far and wide now)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
(But you still can't see that other mountain's other side now)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(So maybe I just go on a dream now)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
(Maybe going on a feeling)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(I'd like to know, how about you now, how about you?)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
(What the fuck you gonna do now?)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(Maybe just going on a dream now, hey)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
(Maybe going on a feeling, maybe going on a feeling)