This song was written all at once in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep. It's rare that a song is completely written in one shot like that and never changed again. But here it is. The Ocean.
lyrics
I don’t know where I’m goin’
But this boat just keeps a’floatin’
And this river keeps a’flowin’
Don’t know when it’s gonna end
My baby jumped the ship so long ago and
Listenin’ to this wind a blowin’
I just can’t help but feel so alone and
I just want it all to end
All these boulders makin’ holes in
My little boat and I don’t know when
The water’s all just gonna flow in
And sink my soul down to the bottom
But at the bottom
Below the water
It’s so calm
It’s so warm
And though my little boat, it falters
It keeps its nose above the water
It knows its course cannot be altered
Still it takes its fate with a grain of salt
It knows
We’re just part of a (w)hole
It follows
The path that god shows
I don’t know where I’m goin’
But this boat just keeps a’floatin’
And this river keeps a’flowin’
Oh look…there’s the ocean
credits
from To Haiti, With Love,
released August 7, 2011
Recorded 5/5/11 at BEL Studios
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