Better keep your boat from going astray

Find yourself a partner and treat them well

Try to give them shelter night and day

'Cos here in this blue light

Far away from this fireside

Things can get twisted and crazy and crowded

You can't even feel alright

Better keep your distance from this whale



So you dream of Columbus

Every time that the panic starts

You dream of Columbus

With your maps and your beautiful charts

You dream of Columbus

With an ache in your travelling heart



See how the cormorant swoops and dives

Must be some thrill to go that deep

Down to the basement of this life

Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps

Not like here in this blue light

Far away from the fireside

Where things can get twisted and haunted and crowded

You can't even feel alright



So you dream of Columbus

Every time that the panic starts

You dream of Columbus

With your maps and your beautiful charts

You dream of Columbus

With an ache in your travelling heart



And as the tide must ebb and flow

I am dragged down under

And I wait the livelong day

For an end to my hunger



So I dream of Columbus

Every time that the panic starts

I dream of Columbus

With my maps and my beautiful charts

I dream of Columbus

And there's peace in a travelling heart

I dream of Columbus