Dar Williams - The Ocean lyrics

When I went to your town on the wide open shore

Oh I must confessI was drawnI was drawn to the ocean

I thought it spoke to meit said'look at us

We're not churchesnot schoolsnot skating pondsswimming pools

And we have lost peoplehaven't we though? '

Ohthat's what the ocean can know of a body

And that's when I came back to townthis town is a song about you.

You don't know how lucky you areyou don't know how much I adore you

You are the welcoming back from the ocean.

I went back to the ocean today

With my books and my papers I went to the rocks by the ocean

But the weather changed quicklyoh the ocean said

'what are you trying to findI dont' careI'm not kind

I've bludgeoned your sailorsI've spat out their keepsakes

Oh it's ashes to ashesbut always the ocean'

But the ocean can't come to this townthis town is a song about you.

You don't know how lucky you areyou don't know how much I adore you

You are the welcoming back from the ocean.

And the ones that can know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

I have a good and I have an evilI thought the oceanthe ocean thought nothing

You are the welcoming back from the ocean.

I didn't go back today

I wanted to show you that I was more land than water

I went to pick flowers. I brought them to you

Look at melook at themwith their salt up the stem

But you frowned when I smiled and I tried to arrange them

You said'let me tell you the song of this town'

You said'everything closes at five. after thatwellyou just got the bars

You don't know how precious you arewalking around with your little shoes dangling

I am the one who lives with the ocean

It's where we came fromyou knowand sometimes I just want to go back

After a daywe drink 'til we're drowningwalk to the oceanwade in with our workboots

Wade in our workbootstry to finish the job.

You don't know how precious you areI am the one who lives with the ocean.

You don't know how I am the one. you don't know how I am the one.'