Lyrics to
Sail Away

This version of Sail Away was released by Deep Purple in 1974.

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If you’re driftin’ on an empty ocean
with no wind to fill your sail,
the future, your horizon,
it’s like searchin’ for the Holy Grail.
You feel there’s no tomorrow
as you look into the water below.
It’s only your reflection
and you still ain’t got no place to go.

Time will show,
when, I don’t know.

Sail away tomorrow,
sailin’ far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
I’ll be there someday yea-yea-yeah yea-ye-yeah.

Oh, woman, I keep returnin
to sing the same old song.
The story’s been told, now I’m gettin’ old.
Tell me,where do I belong?
Feel like I’m goin’ to surrender,
nard times I’ve had enough.
If I could find a place to hide my face,
I believe, I could get back up.

Time will show,
when, I don’t know.

Sail away tomorrow,
sailin’ far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
But I’ll be there someday yea-yea-yeah yea-yea-yea-yeah.

Sail away tomorrow,
sailin’ far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
But I’ll be there someday yea-yea-yeah yea-yea-yea-yeah.

Sail away tomorrow,
sailin’ far away.
To find it steal or borrow.
But I’ll be there someday yeah yeah yeah yea-yea-yeah yeah yeah yeah.

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About Lyrics and Sail Away by Deep Purple

The lyrics to Sail Away are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Deep Purple used when the song was created in 1974. The lyrics to Sail Away have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Deep Purple and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Sail Away by Deep Purple. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Sail Away" means the words set to the music of Sail Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Deep Purple. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Sail Away and the lyrics to Sail Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Deep Purple who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sail Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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