[Verse 1] I will tell it as it was told to me with no clock in the room the boat went out on a Thursday tide and the sea kept what it took [Verse 2] His mother stood at the water's edge for forty winters more and every year she turned the lamp towards the empty shore [Verse 3] There is no chorus to this one there is no place to rest you hold the note as long as breath and that is all you're asked
