Adrift in my ocean Foam lifted and light The sky sets on the horizon And your leaving brings the night
I spy the lighthouse oft the distance And wrack my body to relieve the pittance That space brought such a torpor and a tremor I need your assistance
But tho I cry out in pain As though struck, no answer except The uncaring roar of the inner me calls And the brine lacquors my lips and lids So that all I can account for Is the cold emptiness of the place that I had been abandoned in
Not one to give up, I summon my courage Heart full, I swim away from the light That can't shine on me, and the shore that won't harbor me And push deeper to the midnight blue So I can cast away the memory of you.
It is bitter cold and lonesome, but in time I note the water eases its assault and the light begins to shine Truly, not the lighthouse, false shore and rocky bay But the dawn's morning light off the continent ahead
So I redouble my efforts and drag my weary and wasted body up the celadon sands And open my heart and with my hands Throw to the bitter depths the pain I had carried Like a locker all the way across the ocean of many
And though for a moment I feel the pang of that empty space I know you couldn't stay