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The Ocean Weeps
February 2008
Wow, I love this one. I recorded it in a single night, completely improvised, with only one redo of the vocal track. I like that the subject is a little more unusual than the typical "pop song" - I imagine it to be about a blond-haired, wide-eyed enthusiastic young man, b. 1745, missing, presumed d. 1756.
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The young man goes to sea
Takes a blanket and a tin of worldly goods
The first ship out of Portsmouth
To Tahiti, but first around the Horn
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallowed him
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallows him
The young man goes to sea
Some nights he is lonely on forward decks
But other times a phosphorescent wake
And southern stars will comfort him
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallows him
In a tale of happenstance
With no remorse and no romance
The ocean swallows him
The young man goes to sea
One night there's a fire below decks
Choking in the spindrift, he calls on God
But there's no answer
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallowed him
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallows him
Oh mothers -
Don't let your boys go to sea
In a tale of happenstance
With no remorse and no romance
It swallowed him
Takes a blanket and a tin of worldly goods
The first ship out of Portsmouth
To Tahiti, but first around the Horn
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallowed him
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallows him
The young man goes to sea
Some nights he is lonely on forward decks
But other times a phosphorescent wake
And southern stars will comfort him
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallows him
In a tale of happenstance
With no remorse and no romance
The ocean swallows him
The young man goes to sea
One night there's a fire below decks
Choking in the spindrift, he calls on God
But there's no answer
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallowed him
In a tale of happenstance
The ocean swallows him
Oh mothers -
Don't let your boys go to sea
In a tale of happenstance
With no remorse and no romance
It swallowed him