Anne Clark Nightship song lyrics

The ship slips out from the grasp of the harbour

Out of its hold into the restless water

Silently, steadily, edging away

Silently, steadily, pulling away

I feel my heart swell, surge inside me

Rising and falling, waves that take me

Silently, steadily, onwards away

Slow-motion world, night glimmering blackness

Deep as the stars in the far-off darkness -

Lights caught in time, far far away

Bound to the earth, burnt through with fire

Loose on the water, moving through air

All traces pass sooner or later

Behind and beyond, far far away.