Speed through the waves
Less than land
Drifted, made it good
Doubts expand
Charts gone overboard
Rebellious hands
With dead reckoning the only plan

Cut off in the wind and spray
Weeks now
If you really lost a day
Gone now
Need a fix to pull you back
No way
Need the sun or moon to guide
Too late

Angels yesterday
Would not land
Circle the flag and sails
Melt away
In air and memory
And leave us here
With dead reckoning, and with fear

Voice in the distance
Not getting closer
How can it find you?
Sleep and remember

Without a clock, without the sky
Choose your line
Pass close by
Islands, you think you've seen, you hope you've seen
Before

Cut off in the wind and spray
Weeks now
If you really lost a day
Gone now
Need a fix to pull you back
No way
Need the sun or moon to guide
Too late

Once you were safe and
Home was around you
How can you find it?
What could remind you?

Copyright William Echard