you should also know, that i love the sea. one day, yes, one day i will live near the beach again and see the sun rise or set, and surf the waves, and stare at the water with wonder and take on the ocean's rhythms, and move in the water with the ones i love, and eat fresh crab and fish, and feel the breezes wooing me and telling me to live deeply and freely and with lots and lots of gratitude. anyway, you get the point. the ocean, i love.
i love this woody guthrie song: secret of the sea. it's on the mermaid ave. volume 2 album. it's an album of woody guthrie songs performed by wilco and billy bragg. woody never wrote melodies for these, so billy and wilco took care of it.
remember the mountain bed is my other favorite (maybe one of the best american folk songs lyrically in the past century?). anyway... here are the lyrics to secret of the sea. they're simple. maybe i love them because i love the sea. maybe because i love woody guthrie. maybe the beautiful combination. but i think it's because woody captures the essence of the wonder behind loving the water... in a very simple and mysterious way.
secret of the sea
Who can guess the secret of the sea?
Who can guess the secret of the sea?
If you can guess the secret of my love for you
We both could know the secret of the sea
Tell me, could you ever tell the secret of the sea?
Of these high rolling waves along the shore?
The footprints of the lovers that come here to love,
By the tides washed away forever more
You claim to know the secret of a kiss and a hug
And the secret of the grass and of the trees
And if you can tell the secret of a warm friends hand
Then we all would feel the secrets of the sea
Who can guess the secret of the sea?
If you can guess the secret of my love for you
We both could know the secret of the sea
1 comment:
couldn't have said it better.
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