On The High Seas Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Ckp2ator 

Cover art for On The High Seas lyrics by Gordon Lightfoot

He's writing about someone he loved who seems to have permanently left. He wonders where she's gone, and it's obvious he has no idea given all the locales that are poetically imagined. A hint of why she left is given in the last verse "I don't want to own the key to some ghostly mansion", possibly a lack of extending commitment to the relationship on the writer's part?

Negative
Subjective
Sadness
Lost Love
Longing
Uncertainty