Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Wooden Ships

If you smile at me, I will 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 I got to know
Can you tell me please, why?

Say, can I have some
of your purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them
for six or seven weeks now
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 about very free and easy

Horror grips us
As we watch you die
All we can do is
Echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving
You don't need us

Go, take your sister then, by the hand
Lead her away from this foreign land
Far away where we might laugh again
We are leaving
You don't need us

And it's a fair wind, blowing warm
Out of the south over my shoulder
Guess I'll set a course and go