On a bench, on the beach

Just before the sun had gone

I tried to reach you

Plain faced and falling fast

You looked so vacant, like an empty shell

Whose life had passed upon the ocean



Before light shook the sky

Down by the docks I saw

The masts unfolding

Don't turn away, please understand

It's a life and a living

And a way to keep the wolves away

From hungry hands, from hungry hands



Crazy water

Takes my fishing boat on Monday morning

Dangerous dreaming

If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing

Oh we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water



Tangled lives, lonely wives

Shoreline widows pray

For the souls of missing whalers

Endless nights on an endless sea

Where nothing lives between us

Just the breakers on the ocean

Separating you and me

Separating you and me

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