If you want to
be happy and to lead a good life,
Leave your children, leave your wife,
Take all the money that you haven't got,
Buy yourself a rowboat,
speedboat, or yacht,
And when you get them, listen to me,
I stuff your anchor,
make for the sea,
For from a logical point of view,
Life on the water, life for you
Way out on the water,
money you pay no mind
To friend and acquaintance
that rob you blind
You got no worry about money or rent
Or when you come home,
tell me where you went
It's a good clean air all over the place
And no taxi or bus gonna
breathe in your face
For from a logical point of view,
Life on the water,
life for you.
Man, you stand at the helm
or the tiller or oar,
Sky the ceiling, ocean the floor,
Sun tan your face and your body,
While your teeth look whiter
whenever you smile.
Don't have to wait for light to turn red,
Out on the water, full speed ahead, for from a logical point of view,
life on the water, life for you.
So maybe it's not to such great extent,
nothing in life one hundred percent,
but compared to the land, now I tell you no lies,
you go on your boat, you touch paradise.
A river or bayside, ocean or lake,
Are gonna be
Eden, minus a snake.
For from a logical point of view,
Life on the water, life for you.