Like some night bird homeward wingin'

He seeks the sheltered nest

Like the sailor's lost horizon

He needs some place to rest The songs that he's been singin'

No longer make much sense

And those stranger's 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, nightingale He was strong, but he was taken

By the thought of his success

Those spotlights 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 up on 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 sing sweet nightingale

Oh, na, na, na, na, na

Nightingale, oh nightingale, oh nightingale

Sing, sing, sing, sweet nightingale