josh ritter
beautiful night
  Up here in the crows nest I am swimming through the breeze  One last memory from the sun as it is sinking by degrees  And high above the albatrosses, on the wing is light  And I will sing to her as she flies by  On this beautiful night   Ahead is the horizon, always changing, it stands fast  Far behind me are the desert islands, shipwrecks Of the past  And I have seen the cannons sounding in the early morning light  But I have left my battles for the day  On this beautiful night   Below me, all the sailors, they're on this journey too  And each of us must make our unknown way upon the blue  So tonight we cast our worries,  Float Jetsam on the tide  And we'll watch them echo far away  On this beautiful night   Flat earth may end  We may sail off the edge  And not be seen again  So I sing and hope my song will form  A rope of golden chords  So that I can rescue someone else  Should they fall overboard   Because some of us are pirates and some of us are damned  But all of us, need all of us to ever find the land  And though the passage of good hope may seem  Like a needles eye  We're floating on tranquility  On this Beautiful night   Up here in the crows nest  I am swimming through the breeze  One last memory from the sun   