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STING lyrics : "The Wild Wild Sea"


I saw it again this evening,
Black sail in a pale yellow sky

And just as before in a moment,
It was gone where the grey gulls fly


If it should happen again I shall worry
That only a strange ship could fly
And my sanity scans the horizon

In the light of a darkening sky

That night as I walked in my slumber

I walked into the sea strand
And I swam with the moon and her lover
Until I lost sight of the land


I swam till the night became morning
Black sea in the reddening sky

Found myself on the deck on a rolling ship
So far where no grey gulls fly


All around me was silence
As if mocking my frail human hopes
And a question mark hung in the canvas

For the wind that had died in the ropes

I may have slept for an hour

I may have slept for a day
For a woke in a bed of white linen
And the sky was the colour of clay


At first just a rustle of canvas
And the gentlest breath on my face

But a galloping line of white horses
Said that soon we were in for a race


The gentle sigh turned to a howling
And the grey sky she angered to black
And my anxious eyes searched the horizon

With the gathering sea at my back

Did I see the shade of a sailor

On the bridge through the wheelhouse pane
Held fast to the wheel of the rocking ship
As I squinted my eyes in the rain


For the ship had turned into the wind
Against the storm to brace

And underneath the sailor's hat
I saw my father's face


If a prayer today is spoken
Please offer it for me
When the bridge to heaven is broken

And you've lost on the wild wild sea
Lost on the wild wild sea...

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