[ti:The Wild Wild Sea] [ar:Sting] [al:The Soul Cages] [by:] [offset:0] [00:35.09]I saw it again this evening [00:38.96] [00:40.71]Black sail in a pale yellow sky [00:45.14] [00:46.89]And just as before in a moment [00:50.76] [00:52.81]It was gone where the grey gulls fly [00:57.24] [00:59.12]If it should happen again I shall worry [01:03.74] [01:05.23]That only a strange ship could fly [01:09.03] [01:11.22]And my sanity scans the horizon [01:15.53] [01:17.21]In the light of a darkening sky [01:21.70] [01:23.39]That night as I walked in my slumber [01:27.55] [01:29.43]I walked into the sea strand [01:32.86] [01:35.11]And I swam with the moon and her lover [01:39.35] [01:41.73]Until I lost sight of the land [01:44.78] [01:47.59]I swam till the night became morning [01:52.02] [01:53.45]Black sea in the reddening sky [01:57.54] [01:59.10]Found myself on the deck on a rolling ship [02:02.91] [02:05.27]So far where no grey gulls fly [02:09.58] [02:12.14]All around me was silence [02:17.44]As if mocking my frail human hopes [02:22.25] [02:23.44]And a question mark hung in the canvas [02:28.12] [02:29.30]For the wind that had died in the ropes [02:33.73] [02:35.85]I may have slept for an hour [02:39.41] [02:41.47]I may have slept for a day [02:45.40] [02:46.96]For a woke in a bed of white linen [02:50.27] [02:52.83]And the sky was the colour of clay [02:57.13] [03:22.85]At first just a rustle of canvas [03:27.34] [03:28.46]And the gentlest breath on my face [03:32.46] [03:34.20]But a galloping line of white horses [03:38.75] [03:40.06]Said that soon we were in for a race [03:43.75] [03:46.31]The gentle sigh turned to a howling [03:50.37] [03:52.23]And the grey sky she angered to black [03:55.85] [03:57.72]And my anxious eyes searched the horizon [04:01.59] [04:03.71]With the gathering sea at my back [04:07.77] [04:09.95]Did I see the shade of a sailor [04:14.14] [04:15.64]On the bridge through the wheelhouse pane [04:18.70] [04:21.06]Held fast to the wheel of the rocking ship [04:24.56] [04:26.93]As I squinted my eyes in the rain [04:30.30] [04:33.04]For the ship had turned into the wind [04:36.04] [04:38.72]Against the storm to brace [04:42.77] [04:44.22]And underneath the sailor's hat [04:47.59] [04:49.90]I saw my father's face [04:54.26] [05:07.18]If a prayer today is spoken [05:11.42] [05:13.23]Please offer it for me [05:17.10] [05:19.03]When the bridge to heaven is broken [05:23.14] [05:24.59]And you've lost on the wild wild sea [05:28.83] [05:30.58]Lost on the wild wild sea