All I Need Is You

I'm sailing through the islands on a ferry made of dreams

All I want to know is whether life is what it seems

I believe we will become whatever we behold

I see the new moon rising over waters deep and cold

I can feel that sunset giving all it's got to give

That last dying afterglow that hits me where I live

I've made it this far, baby, on nothing but the blues

From now on in I tell myself that all I need is you

I'm sailing through the islands, I am living out my days

In the towns I'm tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways

Memories are moving like the big sea shoulder and whales

Way down below the surface where the dead ones tell no tales

I never told my father the way I really feel

I never lived anywhere long enough for the money to get real

I could lie about it, baby, but that wouldn't make it true

I'm sailing through the islands now and all I need is you

They sermonized me, baby, but they couldn't take me down

They glamorized my weakness, they bargained for my crown

They took me to that elevator, they opened up that cage

Asked me if I thought my silences would stand up on the page

They wanted me to keep talking till I think of something to say

I took a downward path to wisdom and made my getaway

I'm taking nothing with me except what's old and what is new

I got everything I need, baby, and all I need is you

Sailing through the islands, the republic of the soul

Feel the fine rain falling where those mystic waters roll

I can see America, the mother of my days

All that purple glory just beyond the foggy haze

And Canada, oh Canada, where eagles take the sky

And the people still believe that the world's too young to die

I'm sailing through the islands, I know I'll make it through

I'm heading for the open water and all I need is you

I am sailing through the islands, passing through my mind

With the clarity that comes when you leave the world behind

One wave is like another, each one's like all the rest

But the one that takes you under is the one that knows you best