Like some nightbird homeward winging   He seeks that shelteredness   Like the sailor's lost horizon   He needs some place to rest   The songs that he's been singing    No longer make much sense   And those strangers' cold perceptions   They've killed his confidence      Nightingale   She sails away upon a sea of song   Nightingale   She serenades his lonely, lonely life along   When his tired voice is broken   His golden hope is gone   She makes a loss so simple-longing somehow not so wrong   Nightingale      He was strong but he was taken   By the thought of his success   Those spotlight shadows how they lured him   And took him like all the rest   But that old dream don't look good now   No it don't seem quite the same   He needs to hear a tender word   Won't you sing him home again      Nightingale    She sails away upon a sea of songs   Nightingale   She serenades his lonely, lonely life along   When his strength is slowly going   His pride is all but gone   She makes a foolish dreamer listen    To one last song   Nightingale    Sing sweet nightingale