eye of the storm

Natalie Merchant

You swept over me like a raging sea
Lashing and crashing my side ?til I just gave way
You were the tempest-tossed, given up for dead and lost
You sailed on, the eye of the storm
you were the eye of the storm

You left me behind when you severed all ties
Sworn lone drifter you d be, but you ll never be free
Oblivion bound, you ll never b? found
You sail on, the eye of th? storm
you re the eye of the storm

High on the seas you roam, a sack of skull & bone
All plunder & pillage inside, the roving-roughish kind
And if time hasn t touched you at all
you re the same as before
Still plowing and cursing the deep in your man-of-war
With all the whiskey and rye and a curse on your mind
You sail on, the eye of the storm
you re the eye of the storm

From time to time, you still crawl across my mind
Just a mumbling, stumbling thief in the black of night

You re a tree with a broken limb
picked up and thrown by the wind!
You re the gale s deafening pound
you re the boom and you re the howl!
You re hail stoning the deck and the ship about to wreck!
You re Blackbeard on the bow with a fuse in your mouth!
And you sail on, the eye of the storm
you re the eye of the storm