The boy left home at twenty-one And sailed for Hamburg town His mother's smell his guardian Her voice his angel's sound Through dark streets he wandered Where flesh invites you in Up cold steps at midnight He dreamed of an ocean of love Under the sky above She saw him there in the corner With a gla** upon his knee She lost all sense of danger In his song her heart broke free Laughing voices fill the streets Where lovers are dancing home
Collapsing onto sheets There is an ocean of love Under the sky above Naked as a newborn child I stood there in her room She smiled upon my broken nest And whispered some sweet tune She said, I wrote this for you Take it everywhere you go She held me close and sang to me I've got an ocean of love Under the sky above There is an ocean of love Under the sky above I've got an ocean of love Under the sky above