By Eli/Axel Bauer/Roger Daltrey/Nigel Hinton

© 1987 Chappel Music, Inc.,ASCAP 



Forty days of living hell

Force nine gale, broken sail

What a story I could tell



 Forty days of ocean roar

Now two nights to kill on shore

Stars fall, girls call, take me home



Walking through this empty town

Cuts me up and brings me down

I'm shipwrecked on my own



Passing cars striptease bars

And I'm drinking all alone

Lost dreams, gull screams, take me home



But this machine inside my head

Remembers every word she said

But this machine inside my head

Is telling me this dream is dead

And leaves me drifting high and dry



Read light beauty calls me in

Smoky haze, shifty gaze

And the dead night smells of gin



As rage and emptiness collide

Just feel a burning deep inside

Waves growl, winds howl, take me home



Someone please now rescue me

From the chains of the sea

I'm drifting endlessly

Someone please set me free

I'm sinking helplessly