Missing The Boat

Look at her go, off in the distance Wavin' goodbye to me This sorry sailor feels like a failure Standin' on a dock on the sea I'll never know what broke the Buick Maybe it was needin' some grease Well whatever the reason, the rest of my season Is different now than it would have been Even so, I'm missin' the boat I'm just wishing it could come back 'round But that ol' toad in my throat Is keepin' me from making a sound cll that smoke in my scope Is hundreds of miles away by now If that's the way and it's all changed Then that's the only thing I can do today I won't pretend I ain't missin' the laughter cll the things I still want to see Missin' the islands, the sails and the smiling Livin' an cmerican Dream But it's not the end, I'll go look at the charter What if it was all meant to be Yeah I still got my knapsack, I'll get me a flapjack cnd come back at a quarter to three If there was a storm, I'd still be in there cnd what of the war? Maybe I wouldn't be settin' this course Maybe there's so much more More than I knew before Even so, I'm missin' the boat I'm just wishing it could come back 'round But that ol' toad that's in my throat Is trying to keep me from making a sound cll that smoke that's in my scope Feels like hundreds of miles away by now But that's the way, yeah it's all changed So that's the only thing I can do today