The Wide Open Sea

[Part 1: The Sea Is My Blood] The sea is my blood The rain and the stars are my eyes The clouds are my mind The sea and the rain is my blood [Part 2: From Cradle To Calvary] Lying ahull Ride out this storm Doused all the sails I let the boat drift And so upon this tumbling sea Fathoms below Heavens above me I'm setting sail for Les Marquises From cradle bound for Calvary I feel so alive How can it be Upon this wide, wide open sea? There was a time I was so alive A Paris [Part 3: The Pleasures And The Dreams Of Men] I sing their song I mesmerised The sweat and the tears Stream from my eyes The shock impact of every line I sang to their souls Oh the dreams I would bring I showed them who they are And all they could be All the ugliness and the beauty Of the harsh reality I gave them the man They want me to be And held up the mirror So they could see themselves (reflected) I made the myth where the man ends And the legend begins [Part 4: The Harbour Lights] In the evening they'll be drinking And swinging the lamp Drinking and brawling Telling tall stories Their fishy tales Around and around On the merry-go-round And all the love that they'll make Between tousled sheets Bed springs creak In time to their heartbeats And the click of the heels Down the cobbled streets Let us remind the old lovers For whom the wine has turned sour This could be The finest hour of their time In the giddy hell Of the carousel [Part 5: Far Beyond The Cardinal Points] I've been waiting here a long time I've been waiting for the longest Night of my days Out here alone [Part 6: I'm So Very Far From Here] I'm so very far from here (home is a long way) from me I'm so very far from me (home is a long way) From this wide open sea I'm so very far from here (home is a long way) from me [Part 7: Let Us Speak of Love] Let us speak Speak of love Of home and hope Loving and leaving Of laughter and forgetting And letting go One day we're born On another we die What lies in-between's unimportant in this life I feel the ache in my chest As I draw breath So let us speak of love Love and generosity And if we only have love It's more than enough [Part 8: Calvary – The Sea Is My Blood (Reprise)] The sea is my blood The rain and stars are my eyes The clouds are my mind The sea and rain is my blood Fin