Windward Away - Archie Fisher

Love will come and love will go

As the seas roll on forever

And lost love has the everlasting flow

Of a neverending river

And it’s not an easy reckoning

But sometimes I have the notion

That womenkind, in heart and mind

Sails on a restless ocean

For a tallship came from windward away

On a gray Atlantic morning

She showed no lights or colours

In the hour before the dawning

On a full-rigged run to the rising sun

She reached our starboard quarter

And I’ll ne’r forget the name she wore

She was called the Neptune’s Daughter

Her sails were white as ivory

And her rigging sang like harp strings

Her spars were black as ebony

And her wheels spun free of lashings

Her cloak of gray was the spindrift spray

As she split the waves asunder

I can see her now as she crossed our bow

While we gazed in silent wonder

Her course was set by destiny

And no helmsman’s hand could change her

We hailed her and we signalled

«You are standing into danger»

But she left us free on the westerly

And I watched her pale sails sinking

And if only I was upon her deck

Was all that I was thinking

Love will come and love will go

As the years roll on forever

And lost love has the everlasting flow

Of a neverending river

And it’s not an easy reckoning

But sometimes I have the notion

That womenkind, in her heart and mind

Is a tall ship on the ocean