Night Journey

There’s a sailing ship that plies the skies To a castle in the clouds Far from the world’s mundane worries And far from the maddening crowds In its hold it carries a cargo Of oft visited lovers’ dreams All of their hopes and ambitions And all of their childish schemes Its passengers all come aboard her In the wee dark hours of the night When the whole world is lost in slumber And the stars are its only light Hand in hand they pass up the gangway Like a mist floating over the ground As silent as wraiths in the night hours Their hearts’ beating the only sound As the ship casts off on its journey Her passengers all stare in wonder And are lost in the glow from each others’ eyes The source of the spell they’ve come under So I’ll ask you if one day you’ll join me On that ship to the castle above The only ticket that we will require Is to be fully and truly in love.