SAIL= Travel by ship.

ORINOCO= A tributary river to the Amazon flowing across Venezuela's rain forest.

FLOW= When a liquid (a river in this case) moves, we say that it flows.

REACH= (a sailing term) When the boat is traveling approximately perpendicular to the wind, this is called reaching. For most modern sailboats, reaching is the fastest way to travel. [thanks Erdman]

BEACH= Get to the beach. A beach is an area of sand between the sea and the land.

SHORES= Beach.

TRIPOLI= An ancient city in the Mediterranean sea, founded by the Phoenicians. Today it is the capital of Libya.

CRASH= Collide, bump into.

UPON= (old fashioned) On.

BEYOND= Further than. FAR BEYOND = much further than.

THE YELLOW SEA= A sea between China and Korea.

SAIL AWAY= Go away on a ship.

BISSAU= The capital city of Guinea-Bissau. It's on the African coast.

PALAU=  An island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines.

SHADE= A darker area where the sun rays are blocked by an object (trees in this case).

AVALON= A legendary island, like a paradise, appearing in the legend of King Arthur.

FIJI= A paradisiacal group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.

TIREE= A Celtic island off the coast of Scotland.

ISLES= /aɪlz/ Islands.

THE ISLES OF EBONY= Ebony is a very hard expensive black wood produced in the jungles of Africa and southern India. The Isles of Ebony is an invention, they don't exist, but they sound nice and exotic.

CEBU= An island in the Philippines.

BABYLON= A city state of ancient Mesopotamia from about 5000 years ago, in modern Iraq. It was the capital of the Babylonian empire. A city of richness and luxury.

BALI= An Indonesian island.

CALI= A city in Colombia, near the sea but sited inland. This is the only location which is not by the sea (since this is a journey by ship), and she used it probably because it rhymes with Bali, and she hopes most people won't know exactly where it is.

BENEATH= /bəni:ð/ below.

THE CORAL SEA= A region of the north-east coast of Australia with a chain of islands of the same name. Yea, Cali is not "below the Coral Sea", but how many people knew that?

TURN IT UP= To accelerate, to go faster, to increase the speed.

ADIEU= /ədju:/ (AmE /ədu:/) goodbye. You can also pronounce it imitating the original French word: /ædjɜ:/, which sounds posh or, in this case, more elegant and dreamy.

EBUDAE= A Celtic archipelago (group of islands) off the west coast of Scotland. It is called The Inner Hebrides, but Romans called them Ebudae, and that name sounds more mythical.

KHARTOUM= Capital of Soudan. Placed at the confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile (the two rivers that originate the Egyptian Nile). Yea, it's not on the coast either, but at least you can sail there by boat along the river.

SEA OF CLOUDS= The English name of the Mare Nubium, an area of the moon. The big craters in the moon are called seas, because in the past they thought they contained water.

ISLAND OF THE MOON= Sailors sometimes called Madagascar "Island of the Moon", and since she just talked about a sea of the moon, this name now is very appropriate. Madagascar is a big island off the eastern coast of south Africa.

STEER= To guide a vehicle (a ship in this case).

WE CAN NEAR= In this sentence NEAR is a verb, so it means "we can get close".

ROB DICKINS= The recording studios head (see Song Meaning).

THE WHEEL= A car moves on 4 wheels (rounded) and it also has a "steering wheel" to drive it. In this case, it is the wheel of the sheep, used to guide it. That wheel is also called HELM (see picture)

SIGH= To exhale audibly in a long deep breath, as in weariness or relief.

DEPENDENCIES= A territory under the jurisdiction of a state of which it does not form an integral part. The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand. This line of the song ("Ross and his dependencies") is a little joke, since Ross is the name of the co-producer of this song.