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,
We’re not churches, not schools, not skating ponds, swimming pools
And we have lost people, haven’t we though?»
Oh, that’s what the ocean can know of a body
And that’s when I came back to town, this town is a song about you
You don’t know how lucky you are, you don’t 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 don’t care, I’m not kind
I’ve bludgeoned your sailors, I’ve spat out their keepsakes
Oh it’s ashes to ashes, but always the ocean,»
But the ocean can’t come to this town, this town is a song about you
You don’t know how lucky you are, you don’t know how much I adore you
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.