Nightingale

Like some nightbird homeward winging

He seeks that shelteredness

Like the sailor's lost horizon

He needs some place to rest

The songs that he's been singing

No longer make much sense

And those strangers' cold perceptions

They've killed his confidence

Nightingale

She sails away upon a sea of song

Nightingale

She serenades his lonely, lonely life along

When his tired voice is broken

His golden hope is gone

She makes a loss so simple-longing

Somehow not so wrong

Nightingale

(Nightingale)

He was strong but he was taken

By the thought of his success

Those spotlight shadows how they lured him

(How they lured him)

And took him like all the rest

But that old dream don't look good now

No it don't seem quite the same

He needs to hear a tender word

Won't you sing him home again

Nightingale

She sails away upon a sea of songs

Nightingale

She serenades his lonely, lonely life along

When his strength is slowly going

His pride is all but gone

She makes a foolish dreamer listen

To one last song

Nightingale

Ooh, sing sweet nightingale

Oh na-na-na-na-na

Nightingale

Oh nightingale

Oh nightingale

Sing, sing, sing