Wild Sea Songtext
von Mark Eitzel

Inside he′s empty
A head filled with shopping lists and politics
And a hollow eggshell kind of frailty
Pulling himself back together
Like desperate wishes into the wild sea
That moans and boils
Filled with old ghosts and a whole other language
Uncoiling forever, indecent and foreign

Welcome to the laws of decay
A song of Darwin and dismay

The wild sea rises higher
Heavier it rushes down on him
It was invited, it was not unwelcome
His fear was just a sixty-watt silver lining
Shining from the edges of his crying
Teaching him its frozen prayers
Distant as the next second
Far as any distant land
His future on the horizon


He's laughing in the ocean
Laughing in the ocean
Laughing in the ocean

All his life was a gesture
A check paid in dirty dishes
Listen to the sea wind, hear how it hisses
As it rolls over all your vain petty wishes
And your sweet passionate kisses

The wild, wild sea forever dumb
It has no memory
Just a replay of your complicated amnesty
As it rolls over rocks and weed
Breaking your birdcage and your poet pages
And all your drowned words that were just
Death threats and unpaid debts
And leaves you breathless and peaceful for a while
And you think your heart is without hate for a while
And you think your soul is without hate for a while

And your body was an animal that loved to hide
See the source of your heart buried deep in the tide
See the source of your heart singing from the tide


Lonely joy, lonely joy, tears of joy
The source of your heart deep in the undertow
Hidden tongues and hidden hands pulling you from below
To the source of your pain
The source of your pain in the undertow