A Ship Without A Sail

A Ship Without A Sail

music by Richard Rodgers
lyric by Lorenz Hart

I don't know what day it is, or if it's dark or fair.
Some how that's just the way it is , and I don't really care.
I go to this or that place, I seem alive and well.
My head is just a hat place, my breast an empty shell!
And I've a faded dream to sell.

All alone, all at sea!
Why does nobody care for me?
When there's no one to hold my love, why is my heart so frail,
Like a ship without a sail?

Out on the ocean sailors can use a chart.
I'm on the ocean guided by just a lonely heart.

Still alone, still at sea!
Still there's no one to care for me.
When there's no hand to hold my hand life is a loveless tale
For a ship without a sail.

When love leaves you all alone, you're living in the past.
Then you feel so small alone, and oh, the world seems vast.
You tell your grief to no girls; you never make it known.
Your smile is like a showgirl's, your laugh a hollow tone.
And then your little heart's a stone...

All alone, all at sea!
Why does nobody care for me?
When there's no one to hold my love, why is my heart so frail,
Like a ship without a sail?

Out on the ocean sailors can use a chart.
I'm on the ocean guided by just a lonely heart.

Still alone, still at sea!
Still there's no one to care for me.
When there's no hand to hold my hand life is a loveless tale
For a ship without a sail...