[Verse] There's a ship in the window of the shop on the square With a sail made of paper and a name I can't read Every Saturday morning I stand and I stare At a sea that's a sheet of blue paper underneath [Pre-Chorus] And the man at the counter says it isn't for sale And I tell him that's all right, I don't need it to be [Chorus] I have sailed it, I have sailed it Past the harbour and the lighthouse and the long grey pier I have sailed it, I have sailed it And I'm home before my mother even knows I'm not here [Verse] There's a whole other country on the far side of glass Where the water turns green and the birds have no names I have seen it, I have walked it, I have let it go past And it waits on the shelf till I come back again [Pre-Chorus] And the man at the counter turns the key in the door And the square goes to amber and the shop windows gleam [Chorus] I have sailed it, I have sailed it Past the harbour and the lighthouse and the long grey pier I have sailed it, I have sailed it And I'm home before my mother even knows I'm not here [Chorus] I have sailed it, I have sailed it Past the harbour and the lighthouse and the long grey pier I have sailed it, I have sailed it And I'm home before my mother even knows I'm not here
