Epitaph for a Mariner Songtext
von Sean Filkins

A storm is raging outside
Like the one inside my head
I know the baby's on its way
As my wife lays on the bed
And those friends I'd give my life for
Are fighting for their own
The sea's no friend to man

I hold onto my baby girl
This miracle of life
With tears of joy and sadness
I smile down at my wife
But she knows what I'm thinking
Bout my friends fighting the storm
But the sea's no friend to man


Sea waves the never-ending tides
This fragile planet's heartbeat
Against a fading shore
By dreams we live, we seek, we strive
For truth and love and so much more
We fear death's vale, set for all eternity
The power of Mother Nature
Mere mortals, such are we
My time, our time
So short to conquer all our fears
In the blinking of a child's eye
An ocean full of tears
And through our hands slip grains of sand
A cosmic hour-glass
Death doesn't lie. We live to die
Lost in a seagull's mournful cry
Drifting on this ocean of storms
Darkness, drawing over me
This player leaves the play
Lost beneath the waves
I'm falling
Falling, falling, falling, falling
Down

The sun. Burns cold. Beneath the dying skin
Dark thoughts. Stream through
Scream out from deep within
This life. My life. Cut short relieve my sins
Past loves. Past tears. Caressed by angel's wings
Drifting on the waves of passion
No bed of roses where you lie

Spring flowers weep beneath the drizzling clouds
We bow our heads in shame
No tears must fall for me

The hope.Denied. Forever lost at sea
This end. This night. Drawn down to depths unseen
So still.The soul. Upon my final quest
So young. The old. This jewel of life we hold

Drifting on the waves of passion
No bed of roses where you lie


Spring flowers weep beneath the drizzling clouds
We bow our heads in shame
No tears must fall for me
No tears must fall for me