Come Sail Away Lyrics

Performed by Styx

I'm sailing away,
Set an open course for the virgin sea,
'Cause I've got to be free,
Free to face the life that's ahead of me,
on board, I'm the captain, so climb aboard,
We'll search for tomorrow on every shore,
And I'll try, Oh Lord I'll try, to carry on

I look to the sea,
Reflections in the waves spark my memory,
Some happy, some sad,
I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had,
We lived happily forever, so the story goes,
But somehow we missed out on the pot of gold
But we'll try best that we can to carry on

A gathering of angels appeared above my head,
They sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said,
They said come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me lads,
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me lad,
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me,
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me babe,
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me

I thought that they were angels, but much to my surprise,
We climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies
come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me lads
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me...

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saved my life | Reviewer: Tina | 11/14/10

I'd just like to say I've been listening to this song since it was first released in the 70's. I actually won the Grand Illusion album from a radio station. I would listen to this song as I cried myself to sleep at night in my troubled teenage years. it kept me hopeful and from ending my life. it helped me go on. thank you styx! kudos double

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The perfect song for my brother's memorial... | Reviewer: Sharon | 9/21/10

I know that everyone has different ideas of spiritual connections and their potentials…

This past weekend I lost my sweet wonderful brother who was 55 years old. He was the only boy out of seven children… My heart is very broken…

I am not a big music buff and don’t follow any groups (except in my past I loved Herman’s Hermits)… I have not listened to the radio very much in recent years as I have not been working and therefore no longer use the radio to wake up to…

When I was very young (under 10 years old) I was very close to my brother. My oldest sister is 14 months and 14 days older than me and my brother was 15 months and 23 days younger than me.

As we grew up – we grew apart with different interests and different lifestyles… I have always loved my brother very dearly no matter what and the geographic divide did not help bring us together very often in our later years.

On Friday, September 17, 2010 I awoke and took my bath and my brother came into my mind and I was thinking that I needed to call him as it had been way too long since we last spoke… It had been a couple of months.

As I have been in the midst of a move – I was driving to my house (where I am moving back to) and I noticed the clouds in the sky were absolutely spectacular… I was feeling a little spacey and I started thinking about how those clouds reminded me of the heaven that many ancient artists have painted…

A very eerie feeling came over me and I began to feel an overwhelming sense of impending doom. The feeling was so overwhelming that I found myself telling myself that it was just a beautiful sky and that it did not have any “extrasensory” meaning… I did my best to shake that presentiment and went on my way.
Once I was in my house and once the satellite installer called to say he would be there in 5 minutes my phone rang again… It was my next to the youngest sister who I had spoken with just an hour before. She asked me if I had spoken with anyone and I could tell by her voice that she was calling me with bad news.

My first instinct was that something had happened to my mom (who was with her and I had just spoken with as well)… She told me that my brother had been beaten in the head with a baseball bat and was not expected to survive. He was in a hospital in Miami and on life support.

I was overwhelmed with grief and I sat there in disbelief for the longest time and started reminiscing over past memories of our childhood and adulthood together. I eventually went to my mom’s and spent the rest of the day with her and my oldest sister (while my 2 younger sisters were on their way to Florida to be there for him and to make the decisions that needed to be made and to be sure that his interests were looked after.

Once they called and we all spoke with them I drove home. When I got close to my apartment (it was just a little before 9pm) I noticed 4 spotlights dancing around in the sky… I again started to reminisce about my childhood memories with my brother and when I would get to sleep with him in his bed and we would look at the searchlights in the sky and he would talk about spaceships…

Once at my apartment I could not take my eyes off of the sky and I watched the spotlights for about 5 minutes all the time thinking/saying to him – this is in honor of you Billy… I was so fascinated as the spotlights were dancing around very actively and I have no idea where they were coming from… They were not your typical searchlights as they were large circles just like spotlights on a stage – only these were in the sky.

When I awoke Saturday morning the chorus “Come sail away” kept playing over and over in my head… It is very strange as approximately a week before all of this my best friend was telling me that Styx was going to play at the Hippodrome and I really had no idea who they were. My friend’s daughter Cody tried to sing “Come Sail Away” to me but it was not familiar to me at the time (and possibly the way she sang it?)…

Anyway, I don’t know if it was a mere coincidence or if it may possibly have been a special song for my brother (and I had no memory at all of Cody singing that song and had no idea who actually sang the song) but I could not get that song out of my head… I started wondering if that song had special meaning for my brother. I had no idea what the lyrics were for the song with the exception of “Come sail away with me babe”…

I decided to look up the lyrics yesterday (Sunday) and Goosebumps filled my body as I read the last verse where it said “I thought that they were angels but much to my surprise… We climbed into their starship… We headed for the skies…”

I am convinced my brother’s spirit was with me and that song meant something to him…
Now as I read the comments posted for this song and its lyrics and in February of 2006 Andrew stated this was a “perfect eulogy song” and in January of 2008 an anonymous reviewer stated that it was played at their grandmother’s memorial service – I am even more convinced that my brother led me to this song for his memorial service. I also downloaded it and played it to hear it through and it truly is a perfect song for a memorial service.

Thank you Styx for writing such a beautiful and meaningful song. I don’t know much about you but will probably pay more attention to you now and watch for when you play near me.

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Still In Awe | Reviewer: Shadow♥Sprite | 8/25/08

This song is so amazing, i mean all the synthesizers with guitars. The Styx are one of the FEW bands that can get away with that NO QUESTIONS ASKED O.O... I my self am an independent electronic/dance/trance artist/composer and i still bow down to The Styx... as Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar said to Aerosmith in Wayne's World2 (well changing the line a bit) "IM NOT WORTHY! IM NOT WORTHY! IM SCUM!" Styx.... Kudos

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Come Sail Away | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/18/08

Love the song. My grandma passed away last month, & we played this song at her memorial service at the end. It fit really well & will always be special to me because of it.

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Come Sail Away | Reviewer: Taylor | 10/26/07

Amazingly awesome, nothing better. Styx is so cool, can you believe how old they are now? My mother sang to them twenty- something years ago. Love xoxox

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sentiment | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/6/07

This song is absolutely beautiful. It just makes you stop and think of people you knew and dreams you had. It simply takes me into a maze of the past. It's perfect for any occasion. Styx is a great band

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: ) | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/27/07

my choir is doing this song for a concert and it really hepled

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a perfect eulogy song | Reviewer: Andrew | 2/26/06

all i can say is WOW.

i first heard this song from southpark and thought that the version that eric(cartman)sang was pretty poor but thought that the original could be intresting and to my surprise i fell in love with the song automatically.

so after listening to it a few times and blasting it from my stereo gfor a while i started listening to in less and less, that was until my friend david passed away. he was keen on making videos with his mates round at his house of all of us hanging about and liked the camera to be on him as well as shooting scenes with the camera. i asked his mother if i could use his tapes to make something in his memory and she obliged as i have known the family as long as i can remember. So after a few months of tweaking editing and sound sync i made a video dedicated to davis and his more happy times from hre teenage years to present and used that song as the music throught it and even watching it now almost a year on it still makes me fill up with emotion because of the power in the song and think that if u ever need a song for a service (church/wedding/funeral/etc) then this song is the best one for it as it derives on a powerfull ballad which can warm even the coldest of hearts./

overall 10/10

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