The Ocean Lyrics - Dar Williams

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 

And the ones that can know you so well 

Are the ones, that can swallow you whole 

I have a good and I have an evil 

I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing 

You are the welcoming back from the ocean 

I didn't go back today, I wanted to show you 

That I was more land than water 

I went to pick flowers, I brought them to you 

Look at me, look at them, with their salt up the stem 

But you frowned when I smiled and I tried to arrange them 

You said, "Let me tell you the song of this town" 

You said, "Everything closes at five 

After that, well you just got the bars" 

You don't know how precious you are 

Walking around with your little shoes dangling 

I am the one who lives with the ocean 

It's where we came from, you know 

And sometimes I just want to go back 

After a day, we drink 'til we're drowning 

Walk to the ocean, wade in with our workboots 

Wade in our workboots, try to finish the job 

You don't know how precious you are 

I am the one who lives with the ocean 

You don't know how, I am the one 

You don't know how, I am the one