This is the Sea
A beautiful old song is playing in my soul jukebox tonight. Come inside and listen (click the title):
This is the Sea - The Waterboys
These things you keep
You'd better throw them away
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days
Once you were tethered
And now you are free
Once you were tethered
Well now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea!
Now if you're feelin' weary
If you've been alone too long
Maybe you've been suffering from
A few too many
Plans that have gone wrong
And you're trying to remember
How fine your life used to be
Running around banging your drum
Like it's 1973
Well that was the river
This is the sea!
Now you say you've got trouble
You say you've got pain
You say you've got nothing left to believe in
Nothing to hold on to
Nothing to trust
Nothing but chains
You've been scouring your conscience
Raking through your memory
Scouring your conscience
Raking through your memory
But that was the river
This is the sea, yeah!
Now I can see you wavering
As you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
And it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense
Of something that you just can't see
Trying to make sense now
And you know you once held the key
But that was the river
And this is the sea!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
Now I hear there's a train
It's coming on down the line
It's yours if you hurry
You've got still enough time
And you don't need no ticket
And you don't pay no fee
No you don't need no ticket
You don't pay no fee
Because that was the river
And this is the sea!
That was the river.
This is the sea!
That was the river.
This is the sea!
That was the river, the river, the river, the river, the river, the river, the river, the river...
And this is the sea!
The sea.
Behold the sea!
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photo credit: This is the Sea... by Kancano


Comments (4)
You make my night with that post. I've been listening to The Waterboys since 1991.
Thanks for sharing those wonderful lyrics.
~Him
1. Posted by Blissfully Wed on April 19, 2007
The good news is that I can now access this site from work. Yay Karl Elvis is all i can say to that -- i'm sure he fished out something useful from under his kilt and had a tinker around with some of the more complicated and tangled areas of metadata and Javascript to make this visit possible.
And i love that photo. I don't know the song, but i so appreciate the sentiment.
Kisses,
Juno x
2. Posted by Juno Henry on April 19, 2007
Great song, Syl.
Never hear of The Waterboys before, going to checl them out now.
Thanks for putting it up.
3. Posted by Fusion on April 19, 2007
I absolutely LOVE the waterboys.
She is everywhere and no place
Her church not made with hands
Not contained by man
Great song, babe.
4. Posted by Elvis on April 19, 2007