I'm waiting for ships that never come in just watching and waiting in vain

It seems that life's stormy sea holds nothing for me

But broken dreams and shattered schemes

With each new day's dawning I try to pretend one more tomorrow and waiting will end

I'm waiting for ships that never come in I wonder where they can be



Now life is only a game of poker and happiness is the pot

They'd deal you five cards in the cradle and you play with your like it or not

Some game had a start with and the game doesn't seem on the square

When you pick up your cards and discover that you were born without even a pair

Now some take a chance on bluffing and stake everything they've got

On a little yankee poor flush and sometimes that wins a plot

While others will break up openers to draw for a middle straight

Why they know the chance they are taking but they learned your mistake too late

Now some can't plan crook it against all good advice

But they seldom get away with it at the end they've paid the price

Now me I've always been a loser why it seems I never can win

I'm just a dreamer who's waiting for ships that never come in

I'm waiting for ships that never come in I wonder where they can be