The shadow of innocence gone A childhood lost in the waves For all time While pouring over volumes I lay Like curses that echo the sea Without rhyme Fortunes are drowned Swallowed up by the sea Shackled in time Never known, never seen The battles are brimming below The gallons of emptiness found In the waves A circling vortex of time One thousand and more men are drowned
In their graves Echoes of pride Swallowed up by the sea Shackled in time Never lost, never seen This body is crooked and old But doubtless I'll live and I'll die By the sea I'm wizened and tired and cold But fire still burns in my mind You can see Fortunes are found Now revealed by degree Shackled in time Now I'm lost with the sea