The Waterman

作曲：Paul Richards

作词：Paul Richards

Here at the start of my start

She pulls me drowning from the sea

White fingers flashing down

She's pounding on my heart

Draining the water around of me

Has gone down

It's a marvel to drift so many leaves

But I can't remember now

Not a single sight or sound

It seems that I've lost my memory

When I was lost at sea

I try to tell her about the water

She tries to feel how it must be

To ride the swells of the ocean to be

Waterman doomed to die in the sea

Gales of hell

Waves of motion

She tries to see what I have seen

She takes me to winter in her home

And just like the tree that grows tallest in the park

She's the only knowledge I have known

So I find me a place in her world

Where they say the water speaks to me

And each time the stream won't flow

Or a farm needs a well

Well I show uncanny mastery

Since I was lost at sea

But there's an ocean deep inside me

To find the man that was myself

Before the swells of the ocean made

A waterman doomed to die in the sea

And people formed

Can see

She spies a schooner in our bay

Flashing fingers pointed out to me

The crew runs their anchor down

I splash out through the waves

And they tell me how it came to be

That I was lost at sea

We hear the grandeur of my past

Her tears just glisten silently

With the dawn we'll all be gone

They rescued me at last

On this sixteenth anniversary

Of being lost at sea

Tonight I tell them of the water

My sight dissolving into green

About the wells about the ocean

The waterfalls and the whispering streams

About the love and devotion

That the water man has seen

So I say to the love of my life

You never drained the water out of me

And I stand with her on the sand

As the ship sails out of sight

With the tale of what became of me

I was found at sea

They'll say that out there on the water

A man got lost in endless scream

He wrote wells of the ocean

Became a waterman doomed to die in the sea

We never will have a notion

Of what the waterman did see

She was there at the start from my start