Is It the Sea?/My Home Is the Sea (Live)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

the first light's kissed my eyes--it's time to breathenthe shearing wind that strips the flesh from menso grab your weathered skins and boots and gonis it the hell i fear or is it the sea?nnthe working world's asleep an hour or morenthe barmen from the anchor calls the scorenJock sings the sea-song, chills me to the scorendrink up as it's time to lock the doornnwell, fifteen years have passed, i'm still aboardnnow i brave the chaos of my familynand all i think of is a world ashorenis it life i abhor? is it the sea?nnwell, the pain is dulling out a generation bynand music fills my bones again, at lastnand pride inflates my chest and the tears come to my eyesnto hear my children's children crynnand i have often saidnthat i would like to be deadnin a shark's mouthnnwith warm breath going undernfrom woman sending thundernon two parts southnnand love is stripped and frayednand duty is delayednuntil next lifennand someone has my mindnholding it so kindnthough it is my wifennand my home is the seanmy home is the seanlook not for mennbecause my home is the seandisaster flies upon menand i screamnnand you can see the house lightsncolored from the distancenfor a party is dreamnnand tumble into menmy arms unfold these seedsncause i am a strong mannnand god i love my tummynit's round and firm and funnyncause that's what i amnnand my home is the seanmy home is the seannand i am under your spellnyou will have me i reckonnand the drowning of this townnis a drowning that i welcomennand i know nothing and am overjoyedni know nothing and am overjoyedni know nothing and am overjoyednnwell, god gave you life and thoughtnand now it's ours to wasteni have the finest lovenand the finest of tastesnand with the sea in my lungsni am home


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Lyrics by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

  (Keep Eye On) Other's Gain   A Beast For Thee   A King at Night   All These Vicious Dogs   Am I Demon?   Beware Your Only Friend   big friday   Careless Love   Careless Love   cold & wet   come a little dog   cursed sleep   Cycles   Death Final   Death In The Sea   Door Of My Heart   Easy Does It   Fall Again   For Every Field There's a Mole   Go Folks, Go   Goat and Ram   god's small song   Going to Acapulco   Happy Child   Hey Little   How About Thank You   i am a cinematographer   I Am Goodbye   I Called You Back   I Came to Hear the Music   I Gave You   I'll Be Glad   I'm Loving The Street   Kids   lay and love   Lie Down in the Light   love comes to me   Love in the Hot Afternoon   Merciless and Great   Missing One   Molly Bawn   My Home is the Sea   My Life   My Life's Work   New Partner   Night Noises   no bad news   no more workhorse blues   One Day At a Time   Open Your Heart   pushkin   Rudy Foolish   Same Love That Made Me Laugh   Señor   So Everyone   Someone Coming Through   Strange Form Of Life   Strange Form Of Life   Teach Me to Bear You   the seedling   The Signifying Wolf   The Sounds Are Always Begging   The Way I Am   The World's Greatest   then the letting go   There Is Something I Have To Say   There Will Be Spring   Three Questions   Troublesome Houses   untitled (ebb tide)   viva ultra   wai   We Are Unhappy   What Are You?   What's Missing   Where Is The Puzzle?   Where Wind Blows   Willow Trees Bend   With Cornstalks or Among Them   Without Work, You Have Nothing   You Are Lost   You Can't Hurt Me Now   You Remind Me of Something (The Glory Goes)   You Want That Picture   you will miss me when i burn   You Win

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