Sting - Valparaiso

Chase the dog star
Over the sea
Home where my true love is waiting for me
Rope the south wind
Canvas the stars
Harness the moonlight
So she can safely go
Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso

Red the port light
Starboard the green
How will she know of the devils I've seen
Cross in the sky, star of the sea
Under the moonlight, there she can safely go
Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso
Valparaiso

And every road I walked would take me down to the sea
With every broken promise in my sack
And every love would always send the ship of my heart
Over the rolling sea

If I should die
And water's my grave
She'll never know if I'm damned or I'm saved
See the ghost fly over the sea
Under the moonlight, there she can safely go
Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso
Valparaiso
Valparaiso
Valparaiso

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[chakrachaser]

This song has a spiritual nature about it. It embraces the beauty, danger, hardship, wonder and majesty of the worlds oceans, and ports of call which draw ships in to them. Like a beautiful woman draws the heart of a man. Valparaiso is one of those mystical places very possible a part of our collective unconscious yearning for a hero's journey. Wonderful job Sting!!

I stand on the Frigate bow and salute you!!

[pvarl351975]

this song is very different like no other music i heard before

[Doristheinfuriating]

This is from the movie, White Squall. Great song, great movie.

[seattletaytay]

anyone know if there's a live version or a cover of this? I LOVE this but I'd love to hear another version.

[vinagree9]

yo naci en viñapero siempre tuve a valparaiso al lado mio...como lo echo de menos ahora que eviuvo en una ciudad fria y sin magia..ahora esatoy en santiago...quiero ir a recorrer esas calles de mi puerto querido..andar por las torpederas, por el membrillo por el puerto etc..

[diegothno]

Valparaiso, Chile

[masamune200]

Would anyone happen to know where I could find a free copy of sheet music for this song by any chance?

[F5veSeveN]

SO EPIC hearing this during the credits of White Squall. The ending was so sad :'(

God bless all sailors and men and women in the navy.

[MultiRerun]

One of Mercury Rising great songs from Sting.....

[arnechino]

This song is about a real place (in Chile) called Valparaíso :)

[ldmarley]

This song call to me. I love it. One of my favorites..and I live in a desert.. maybe tis why.

[ldmarley]

@chakrachaser -what a beautiful comment...