Beautiful Night

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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  Up here in the crow's nest I am
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 swimming through the breeze
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One last memory from the sun as it
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 is setting by degrees
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And high above an albatross is 
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following its light
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And I will sing to her as she 
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flies by   on this beautiful night

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Ahead is the horizon, always 
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changing it stands fast
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Far behind me are the desert 
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islands shipwrecks of the past
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And I have seen the cannons 
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sounding in the early morning light
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But I have left my battles for the
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 day  on this beautiful night

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[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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Lonely are the sailors they're 
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on this journey too
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And each of us must make our 
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unknown way upon the blue
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So tonight we cast our worries 
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float jetsam on the tide
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And we watch them echo far away  
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On this beautiful night


[Bridge]
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The flat earth may end
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We may sail off the edge and not 
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be seen again
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So I    sing and hope my song will 
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form a rope of golden cords/chords
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So that I can rescue someone else 
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should they fall overboard


[Verse 3]
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  Some of us are pirates and 
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some of us are damned
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But all of us need all of us to 
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ever find the land
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And though the Passage of Good 
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Hope may seem     like a needle's
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 eye
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We're floating on tranquility    
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on this beautiful night


[Other]
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Up here in the crow's nest I am 
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swimming through the breeze
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One last memory from the sun...
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