Paul Van Vliet
Paul Van Vliet - The Sea songtekst
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The sea spoke up that afternoon And said: All will be over soon So often I am wondering if people know, she said About the years of weariness and suffering I have had There are days that I’m choked with the waste of the land There are days that I feel that the end is at hand That’s what the sea said – and she wasn’t even trying To hide from me that she is slowly dying I know that you have surveys and reports, she said to me Predicting poisoned continents in a polluted sea But all this writing-on-the-wall will quickly disappear For interested parties just don’t want the world to hear That’s what the sea said and there is little use denying She’s slowly and inevitably dying I used to feel so young at the arrival of the summer With laughter on the beach and children playing ball But now I feel like warning all these unsuspecting people Look out! Coming too close may not be good for you at all That’s what the sea said – and she wasn’t even crying Just slowly and inevitably dying In November and December I Sometimes lose my temper Battering all the dikes and pounding every beach Beating at their doors in angry desperation Hoping against hope there will be someone I can reach Hoping against hope that just a few of them will hear And understand the reasons for my anger and my fear But no one hears and no one cares – they go on as before And soon I will not fight this losing battle anymore That’s what the sea said – and she was no longer trying To hide from me that she was slowly dying The sea was still awhile and I asked if there was anything I could do She thought about it, for a moment, then she said: When you return again please take some photographs of me So you can show your children’s children what I used to be That’s hat the sea said and she was no longer trying Just slowly and inevitably dying And when the sea, the sea’s no longer trying What that means is that the world is slowly dying