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