Wooden Ships

If you smile at me I will really understand
'Cause that is something everybody everywhere
Does in the same language

I can see by your coat, my friend
You're from the other side
There's just one thing that I'd like to know
Can you tell me, please, who won our damn war?

Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them
For six or seven weeks now and I haven't got sick once
Probably keep us both alive

Wooden ships on the water very free and easy
Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline let us be
Talking very free and easy

Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cry
We can stare at you, yes, as all your human feelings die
We are leaving, you don't

Go, take a sister then, by her hand
Lead her out of this foreign land
Far away, where we might laugh again
We are leaving, you don't
You don't, you don't, you don't, you don't
You don't, you don't, you don't
Told us over and over, and over, and over
And over, and over, and over again
You think we're all fools and we're not listening

And it's a fair wind
Blowing warm out of the south, over my shoulder
I guess I'm gonna set a course and go