Where the Ocean Meets the Sky

Well, you carved the hull out of a giant oak burl

And you stitched sacks of cloth together for a sail you'd unfurl

On a mast you made from a trunk of gnarled white pine

Yeah, that rudder was a scrap of plywood lashed on with a grape vine

You said--you've seen how I lived—a little bit wild

Always fighting the wind and the tide

I'm older now, want to go with the flow

Yeah, I just want to sail, I'm too tired to row

You said—please, please wind and tide

Carry me out there to where the ocean meets the sky

You said—please, please wind and tide

Carry me out there to where the ocean meets the sky

You said—I don't believe them, but I've heard some say

That the only thing out there is more wind and waves

Well, I might have believed that as a younger man

I'm older now it's all about the promised land

I said—friend you've been working mighty hard on that boat

But let's be honest it's a bit of a joke

Yeah, the first big wave's gonna take you down

I'd hate to see a good friend like you drown

I'm going to pray, pray that wind and tide carries you back

From where the ocean meets the sky

I'm going to pray, pray that wind and tide carries you back

From where the ocean meets the sky

Well, you smiled and you laughed and you slapped my back

You said—the secret to sailing is in the art of the tack

There's nothing out there I haven't seen before

Friend, you can't be afraid to leave the shore

And as you rounded the jetty and hit the open sea

In that crazy, crazy boat you sailed away from me

Going and going until you were gone

Disappeared out there and you proved me wrong

So yes, yes that wind and tide it carried you out there

To where the ocean meets the sky

Yes, yes that wind and tide it carried you out there

To where the ocean meets the sky

Yes, yes that wind and tied it carried you out there

To where the ocean meets the sky