Lyrics to
Sail Away

This version of Sail Away was released by Neil Young in 1979.

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I could live inside a tepee
I could die
in Penthouse thirty-five
You could lose me on the freeway
But I would still
make it back alive.

As long as we can sail away
As long as we can sail away
There’ll be wind in the canyon
Moon on the rise
As long as we can sail away.

See the losers in the best bars
Meet the winners in the dives
Where the people are the real stars
All the rest of their lives.

As long as we can sail away
As long as we can sail away
There’ll be wind in the canyon
Moon on the rise
As long as we can sail away.

There’s a road
stretched out between us
Like a ribbon on the high plain
Down from Phoenix through Salinas
‘Round the bend and back again.

As long as we can sail away
As long as we can sail away
There’ll be wind in the canyon
Moon on the rise
As long as we can sail away
As long as we can sail away.

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About Lyrics and Sail Away by Neil Young

The lyrics to Sail Away are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Neil Young used when the song was created in 1979. 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 Neil Young 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 Neil Young. 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 Neil Young. 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 Neil Young 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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