Under the brine, you won't notice the dark
Can stone and steel, and horses' heels ever explain the way you feel
From Scapa Flow to Rotherhithe, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
Main Riff (Repeat first phrase only twice)
So irrigate your heart until you know you're complete
And your draped in kelp, below by 8,000 feet
"My soul," she cried, "I thought you'd died amid fumes of formaldehyde"
You have been gone for so long. I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
My love, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide!
Chorus
When this corpus christic isle became a landed ocean blue
Again she cried, "You turned my eye"
At mentions of "no matter why"
(First phrase of Main Riff repeated for the rest of Interlude and First Chorus)
And in the end an August sun
Of one by one it blew
Until the devil screamed in the evermore
In envy of the grace we saw
The sound… (Chorus starts here making the rest of the Interlude lyrics unintelligible)
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
Main Riff