From The Wide Open Sea

: 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

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

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

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

I've been waiting here a long time
I've been waiting for the longest
Night of my days
Out here alone

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

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

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