Like some night bird
homeward winging
he seeks
the sheltered nest
Like the sailor's
lost horizon
he needs
some place to rest
The songs that
he's been singing
no longer
make much sense
And those strangers'
cold perceptions
They've killed
his confidence
Nightingale
She sails away
upon a sea of song
Nightingale
She serenades his lonely
lonely life along
When his tired
voice is broken
his golden hope is gone
She makes a lost
soul's simple longing
somehow not so wrong
Nightingale
He was strong
but he was taken
by the thought
of his success
Those spotlight shadows
how they lured him
and took him
like all the rest
But that old dream
don't look good now
No it don't seem
quite the same
He needs to hear
a tender word
Won't you sing him
home again
Nightingale
She sails away
upon a sea of song
Nightingale
She serenades his lonely
lonely life along
When his strength
is slowly going
his pride is
all but gone
She makes a foolish
dreamer listen
to one last song
Nightingale
Ooh sings with
Nightingale oh