The Ocean-Dar Williams

[ti:The Ocean] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:Mortal City] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]The Ocean - Dar Williams [00:00.02]Written by：Dar Williams/Dar William [00:00.04] [00:09.90]When I went to your town [00:11.70]On the wide open shore [00:13.10] [00:16.14]Oh I must confess I was drawn [00:18.79]I was drawn to the ocean [00:20.46] [00:21.23]I thought it spoke to me It said "Look at us [00:25.44]We're not churches not schools [00:27.32]Not skating ponds swimming pools [00:29.51] [00:30.49]And we have lost people haven't we though " [00:32.72] [00:35.54]Oh that's what the ocean can know of a body [00:38.85] [00:39.60]And that's when I came back to town [00:41.82] [00:43.23]This town is a song about you [00:45.43] [00:46.47]You don't know how lucky you are [00:49.27] [00:50.35]You don't know how much I adore you [00:53.38] [00:54.23]You are the welcoming back from the ocean [00:57.31] [01:05.67]I went back to the ocean today [01:07.62] [01:10.48]With my books and my papers [01:12.09] [01:12.74]I went to the rocks by the ocean [01:14.94] [01:15.73]But the weather changed quickly [01:17.05] [01:18.31]Oh the ocean said "What are you trying to find [01:21.29] [01:22.10]I don't care I'm not kind [01:23.95]I've bludgeoned your sailors [01:25.47] [01:26.22]I've spat out their keepsakes [01:27.60] [01:29.97]Oh it's ashes to ashes but always the ocean" [01:33.33] [01:34.00]But the ocean can't come to this town [01:36.74] [01:37.93]This town is a song about you [01:40.25] [01:41.48]You don't know how lucky you are [01:43.93] [01:44.91]You don't know how much I adore you [01:47.96] [01:48.93]You are the welcoming back from the ocean [01:51.99] [02:23.30]And the ones that can know you so well [02:25.56] [02:26.70]Are the ones that can swallow you whole [02:28.98] [02:30.15]I have a good and I have an evil [02:32.85] [02:33.96]I thought the ocean the ocean thought nothing [02:37.05] [02:38.00]You are the welcoming back from the ocean [02:40.80] [02:49.31]I didn't go back today I wanted to show you [02:54.26]That I was more land than water [02:56.27] [02:57.55]I went to pick flowers I brought them to you [03:01.81]Look at me look at them with their salt up the stem [03:05.88]But you frowned when I smiled and I tried to arrange them [03:09.94] [03:12.01]You said "Let me tell you the song of this town" [03:15.34] [03:17.49]You said "Everything closes at five [03:19.59]After that well you just got the bars" [03:21.91] [03:23.15]You don't know how precious you are [03:25.72] [03:26.95]Walking around with your little shoes dangling [03:29.62] [03:30.66]I am the one who lives with the ocean [03:33.72] [03:35.57]It's where we came from you know [03:37.39]And sometimes I just want to go back [03:39.78] [03:40.54]After a day we drink 'till we're drowning [03:43.41] [03:44.36]Walk to the ocean wade in with our workboots [03:47.41] [03:48.28]Wade in our workboots try to finish the job [03:51.11] [03:52.28]You don't know how precious you are [03:54.92] [03:56.08]I am the one who lives with the ocean [03:59.10] [03:59.96]You don't know how I am the one [04:02.77] [04:03.79]You don't know how I am the one