Mark Eitzel - Wild Sea lyrics

Inside he's empty A head filled with shopping lists and politics And a hollow eggshell kind of frailty Pulling himself back together like desperate wishes Into the wild sea that moans and boils Filled with old ghosts and a whole other language Uncoiling forever Indecent and foreign Welcome to the laws of decay The song of Darwin and dismay The wild sea rises higher Heavier it rushes down on him It was invited, it was not unwelcome His fear was just a 60 watt silver lining Shining from the edges of his crying Teaching him its frozen prayers Distant as the next second Far as any distant land's future on the horizon He's laughing in the ocean Laughing in the ocean Laughing in the ocean All his life was a gesture A check paid in dirty dishes Listen to the sea wind, hear how it hisses As it rolls over all your vain petty wishes And your sweet pa**ionate kisses The wild, wild sea Forever dumb, it has no memory Just a replay of your complicated amnesty As it rolls over rocks and weed breaking your birdcage And your poet's pages And all your drowned words That were just d**h threats and unpaid debts And leaves you breathless and peaceful for a while And you think your heart is without hate for a while And you think your soul is without hate for a while And your body was an animal that loved to hide See the source of your heart buried deep in the tide See the source of your heart singing from the tide Lonely joy Lonely joy Tears of joy The source of your heart deep in the undertow Hidden tongues and hidden hands pulling you from below To the source of your pain The source of your pain in the undertow