[Verse 1]
When I went to your town on the wide open shore
Oh, I must confess, I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean
I thought it spoke to me
It said, "
Look at us
We're not churches, not schools
Not skating ponds, swimming pools
And we have lost people, haven't we though?"
Oh, that's what the ocean can know of a body
[Pre-Chorus]
And that's when I came back to town
This town is a song about you
[Chorus]
You don't know how lucky you are
You don't know how much I adore you
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
[Verse 2]
I went back to the ocean today
With my books and my papers I went to the rocks by the ocean
But the weather changed quickly
Oh, the ocean said, "What are you trying to find?
I don't care, I'm not kind
I have bludgeoned your sailors
I've spat out their keepsakes
Oh, it's ashes to ashes, but always the ocean"
[Pre-Chorus]
But the ocean can't come to this town
This town is a song about you
[Chorus]
You don't know how lucky you are
You don't know how much I adore you
You are a welcoming back from the ocean
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[Pre-Chorus]
And the ones that can know you so well
Are the ones that can swallow you whole
[Chorus]
I have a good and I have an evil
I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing
You are a welcoming back from the ocean
[Verse 3]
I didn't go back today
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water
I went to pick flowers
I brought them to you
Look at me, look at them, with their salt up the stem
But you frowned when I smiled and I tried to arrange them
You said,
"Let me tell you the song of this town"
[Pre-Chorus]
You said, "Everything closes at five
After that, well you just got the bars"
[Chorus]
"You don't know how precious you are
Walking around with your little shoes dangling
I am the one who lives with the ocean"
[Pre-Chorus]
"It's where we came from, you know
And sometimes I just want to go back"
[Chorus]
"After a day, we drink 'til we're drowning
Walk to the ocean, wade in with our workboots
Wade in our workboots, try to finish the job
You don't know how precious you are
I am the one who lives with the ocean
You don't know how I am the one
You don't know how I am the one"
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