Lyrics to
Sail Away Home

This version of Sail Away Home was released by John Denver in 1970.

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Sail away, sail away home. Sail away till you are gone.
You have so far to go, there’s so much that you don’t know.
Dream away, see what you find, yeah. Dream away, it’s all in your mind.
Things that you’d like to see, things that you’d like to be.

Don’t you know, it seems so wrong, yeah. Don’t you know, it’s gone on too long.
I can’t take the guns anymore, I can’t take the screams anymore, I can’t take the pain.
It’s got to stop, it’s got to change, it can’t go on, it can’t go on.

Don’t you know, it’s gone on to long, yeah. Don’t you know, it seems so wrong.
I can’t take the guns anymore, I can’t take the screams anymore, I can’t take the pain.
It’s got to stop, it’s got to change, it can’t go on, it can’t go on.

Find a way, I know you can. Find a way, I’ll give you my hand,
We’re on our way back home, we’ve been a long time gone.
Sail away, sail away home. Sail away, sail away home. Sail away, sail away home.

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John Denver has released many songs over the years besides Sail Away Home. John Denver released songs from 1969 to 1998 spanning across albums like Rhymes And Reasons, Take Me To Tomorrow, Whose Garden Was This?, Poems, Prayers And Promises, Aerie, Rocky Mountain High, Farewell Andromeda, Back Home Again, Rocky Mountain Christmas, An Evening With John Denver, Windsong, Spirit, I Want To Live, A Christmas Together, John Denver, Autograph, Some Days Are Diamonds, Seasons Of The Heart, Rocky Mountain Holiday, It's About Time, Dreamland Express, One World, Higher Ground, The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Christmas, Like A Lullaby, Different Directions, All Aboard!, and Forever, John. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Denver.

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About Lyrics and Sail Away Home by John Denver

The lyrics for Sail Away Home are defined as the words making up the song released by John Denver in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Sail Away Home have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only John Denver and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Sail Away Home by John Denver if you think through it. 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 Home" means the words set to the music of Sail Away Home, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. 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 Home and the lyrics to Sail Away Home are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sail Away Home, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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