Lyrics to
Sailing Nights

This version of Sailing Nights was released by Bob Seger in 1975.

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Like the wind that carried ahab
To a far, more distant shore,
To a shipwreck that was certain
Long before.
I can see there’s no use sailing
Among ships i’ve known before.
It will only bring me more,
And more and more
Lonely sailing nights, more,
Racing, dimming lights.
Lonely nights, and all too
Familiar sights.

Just as water seeks its level,
So i only seek to live;
Hoping somehow i can find
A way to give.
And the sea, it softly beckons,
“come and go where you’ve not been.”
With the dawning of a new day,
I’m gone, again.
Lonely sailing nights, … gone,
Racing, dimming lights,
Lonely nights,
And all too
Familiar sights.

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About Lyrics and Sailing Nights by Bob Seger

When you decide to study the lyrics to Sailing Nights, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Bob Seger. Some of the lyrics to Sailing Nights have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bob Seger and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Sailing Nights if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Sailing Nights" means the words set to the music of Sailing Nights, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Seger. 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 Sailing Nights and the lyrics to Sailing Nights are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Seger who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sailing Nights, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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