Like some nightbird homeward winging
He seeks that shelteredness
Like the sailor's lost 1
He needs some place to rest
The songs that he's been singing
No longer make much 2
And those strangers' cold perceptions
They've killed his confidence

Nightingale
She 3 away upon a sea of song
Nightingale
She serenades his lonely, lonely life along
When his tired 4 is broken
His golden hope is gone
She makes a loss so simple-longing 5 not so wrong
Nightingale

He was strong but he was taken
By the thought of his success
Those 6 shadows how they lured him
And took him like all the rest
But that old dream don't 7 good now
No it don't seem quite the same
He needs to hear a tender word
Won't you sing him 8 again

Nightingale
She sails away upon a sea of songs
Nightingale
She 9 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
Sing sweet nightingale