dusk arising

Ocean

 


she was Ocean
that\'s how they called her
some old fella
south of Yella Point
named her that way
said she had a motion
like liquid
rising and falling
at the call of that moon up there

Ocean yeah
that\'s Ocean alright
and right now there\'s
a half a dozen guys shipwrecked
floating around her
like she was gonna pluck
any one of them
some hopes brother
it ain\'t in her eyes

Oh those eyes yeah
they a sayin
come deeper darling dare
where no shore\'s
gon\' bekon ye home
and play a while
on that beastly
rising swell
then float away

but they don\'t
no sir .. not a one of them
they just bobbin like
bears around honey
flotsum round her knees
becalmed on some eddy
waiting on the day
lost upon Ocean
caught up on a swell

         me? I\'m just the shipping forecast man
                     maelstrom\'s a coming
                                  Johnny\'s back in town