Sometimes you glimpse that shimmering childhood sense of things
Sometimes you sense that simple thing in brains
Most times you'll only see it's something you once knew
Sometimes you glimpse it and it's gone from view
Sometimes you glimpse it and it's gone from view
It seems like most of the people I care the most about
Have got their backs against the wall
So it's no big surprise for me to hear you say
That you're behind the old eight ball
Somber sail away
Jet plane fly
Can't leave the land today
But what a blue clear sky
Blue clear sky
You say you lost your money and you lost your wife
Gonna have to hang on to yourself somehow
Say you're a self-made man and so you know how to lose
But sure could use some good news now
Somber sail away
Jet plane fly
Can't leave the land today
But what a blue clear sky

Blue clear sky
Blue clear sky
Sometimes you glimpse that shimmering childhood sense of things
Sometimes you sense that simple thing in brains
Most times you'll only see it's something you once knew
Sometimes you glimpse it and it's gone from view

Sometimes you glimpse it and it's gone from view
It's been a time none will tend to forget my friend
Since we all saw the landmarks fall
And in the big western world lots of flags unfurled
And I wake up, wake up call
Somber sail away
Jet plane fly
Can't leave the land today
But what a blue clear sky
Blue clear sky
Can't leave the land today
Somber sail away