When I went to your town on the wide open shore,
Oh I must confess, I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean,
I thought it spoke to me, it said, look at us,
Were not churches, not schools, not skating ponds, swimming pools,
And we have lost people, havent we though?
Oh, thats what the ocean can know of a body,
And thats when I came back to town, this town is a song about you.
You dont know how lucky you are, you dont 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 quickly, oh the ocean said,
what are you trying to find, I dont care, Im not kind,
Ive bludgeoned your sailors, Ive spat out their keepsakes,
Oh its ashes to ashes, but always the ocean,
But the ocean cant come to this town, this town is a song about you.
You dont know how lucky you are, you dont 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 evil, I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing,
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
I didnt 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 me, look at them, with 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 that, well, you just got the bars,
You dont know how precious you are, walking around with your little shoes dangling,
I am the one who lives with the ocean,
Its where we came from, you know, and sometimes I just want to go back,
After a day, we drink til were drowning, walk to the ocean, wade in with our workboots,
Wade in our workboots, try to finish the job.
You dont know how precious you are, I am the one who lives with the ocean.
You dont know how I am the one. you dont know how I am the one.
