I am an old old sailor

With a future much shorter than his past

I live alone, I do not wander

A world that just slips further from my grasp

And from my home I watch the people

Struggle through the burden of each day

That’s where Marie sweet and gentle

Smiles to me when she passes on her way

And she does it so well

She pulls me out of times cruel spell

For long enough to finally tell

That nothing is wrong

I am a boy, I am a child

With those simple dreams still burning in my heart

I’ve known Marie for a while

She shows me where all my beginnings are

And once a week she takes me dancing

She shows me friends and places I never knew

And it always ends watching her leaving

With a man she knows don’t understand what loneliness will make you do

And she does it so well

She shows me where my dreams dwell

She shows me how to find myself

And that nothing is wrong

I am a lonely singer

With a song for every feeling I cannot name

And I find Marie in every measure

And somehow the clearer it becomes the longer she’s away

And she does it so well

I was still falling in love when she said farewell

For long enough to finally tell

That nothing is wrong...that nothing is wrong