[Verse 1: Lieutenant]
What child this night
Whose dream take flight?
What child somewhere
Sleeps unaware?
What life that yet
Has no regrets?
What child who knows
What dreams I've closed?

[Chorus: Lieutenant]
Time floats on
As I write these letters that you'll never see
Still each one's gone
Placed in a bottle
So tides they might follow
And somehow find their way to thee

[Verse 2: Lieutenant]
What child this night
Whose wings take flight?
On evening winds
What dreams begin?
Each day begets
Its own regrets
Do I dare wait
Or joust with fate?
[Chorus: Lieutenant]
Time floats on
As I write these letters that you’ll never see
Still each one's gone
Placed in a bottle
So the tides they might follow
And somehow find their way to thee

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro: Lieutenant]
What child this night
Whose dreams take flight?