Nightingale

Like some night bird homeward wingin
 He seeks the sheltered nest
 Like the sailor's lost horizon
 He needs some place to rest
 The songs that he's been singin'
 No longer make much sense
 And those stranger's cold perceptions
 They've killed his confidence
 Nightingale, she sails away upon a sea of song
 Nightingale, she serenades his lonely, lonely life along
 When his tired voice is broken
 His golden hope is gone
 She makes a lost soul's simple longing
 Somehow not so wrong
 Nightingale, nightingale
 He was strong, but he was taken
 By the thought of his success
 Those spotlights shadows
 How they lured him and took him like all the rest
 But that old dream don't look good now
 No it don't seem quite the same
 He needs to hear a tender word
 Won't you sing him home again
 Nightingale, she sails away up on a sea of song
 Nightingale, she serenades his lonely, lonely life along
 When his strength is slowly going
 His pride is all but gone
 She makes a foolish dreamer listen to one last song
 Nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale
 Oh, na, na, na, na
 Nightingale, oh nightingale
 Nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale