Ripples (Live from The Lyceum Theatre, London, 6th & 7th May 1980)

Blue girls come in every size
Some are wise and some otherwise
They got pretty blue eyes
For an hour, a man may change
For an hour, her face looks strange
Looks strange, looks strange

Marching to the promised land
Where the honey flows and takes you by the hand
It pulls you down on your knees
While you're down, a pool appears
And the face in the water looks up
She shakes her head as if to say
That it's the last timе you'll look like today, hey, hey

Sail away, away
Oh, thе ripples never come back
They gone to the other side
So sail away, away, ooh

The face that launched a thousand ships
It's sinking fast, that happens, you know
Yes, the water gets below
Seems not very long ago
Lovelier she was than any that I know

Angels they never know it's time
To close the book and gracefully decline
Now the song has found a tale
My, what a jealous pool is she
And the face in the water looks up
She shakes her head as if to say
That the blue girls have all gone away, hey, hey

Sail away, away
Oh, the ripples they never come back
Yes, they've gone to the other side
So look into the pool, you see
Ripples they never come back, no they never come back
So dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone, she said
They've gone to the other side, oh, ooh

Sail away, away
You know that the ripples, they never come back
Yes, they've gone to the other side, oh
So look, take a look into the pool, you see
The ripples they never come back, no they never come back
So dive to the bottom and go to the top
To see where they have gone
Yes, they've gone, they've gone to the other side, no, no, no, no
The ripples they never come back, they never come back

So sail away, sail away, hey
No, no, no, no, no, ooh
You know they never come back
They never come back, they never come back
So sail away, away, hey
Ooh, they never come back, they never come back, they never come back
So sail away, away, hey