The Sea Is Only A Road

Lyrics: The Sea is only a Road A cup in my hand, a table for a stair, and half of the island looking up from down there. The lamps at my eyes, the leaves up above, no wise words at all, just a list and some love. They say it's for the water. They say it's for the calm. It's the same sea every morning. It never was the calm. THE SEA IS ONLY A ROAD — (only a road) — the water's not the reason. THE SEA IS ONLY A ROAD — (only a road) — you come, and you make the season. Only a road, only a road, and it carried you home. Oh-ah, oh-ah-ah, (only a road) oh-ah, oh-ah-ah, (only a road) A tooth from a whale that was never a whale, a bowl of melted snow and a long, long tale. A ship that finds the same rock every year for sure, and a knot a woman taught me on the steps down by the shore. They say it's for the water. They say it's for the calm. It's the same sea every morning. It never was the calm. THE SEA IS ONLY A ROAD — (only a road) — the water's not the reason. THE SEA IS ONLY A ROAD — (only a road) — you come, and you make the season. Only a road, only a road, and it carried you home. Oh-ah, oh-ah-ah, (only a road) oh-ah, oh-ah-ah, (only a road) One ship didn't come. One family stayed. One oarsman comes in spring. Their places are laid. One ship didn't come. One family stayed. We keep them a chair and the table is laid. Not a colour in this yard ever grew at home: yellow from a flower, brown from a bark unknown, white from a shell out of somebody's sea, and every thread of it came up the road to me. THE SEA IS ONLY A ROAD — (only a road) — the water's not the reason. THE SEA IS ONLY A ROAD — (only a road) — you come, and you make the season. Only a road, only a road, and it carried you home. Eat of our bread, drink of our water, and harm no one here. Eat of our bread, drink of our water. (You are ours while you're here.) Only a road, only a road, and it carried you home.