Iv. Ocean

Lyrics

[Father Mapple] Pip kept his head above the water And his little legs kicked and kicked And he tried to call for help And he breathed as much as he could And he watched as the whaleboats disappeared [Spoken] And so Pip is alone Pip in the ocean, Pip treading water Pip on his own The sun was so bright, little Pip had to squint So his vision became confused and smeared But there was only one thing he could see Only one thing to see Ocean, sky, ocean-sky Little Pip in the ocean The smallest boy I ever knew in the biggest place there ever was He kicked his legs and kept afloat, kicked his legs and kept afloat Kept afloat above the water He tried to breathe as much as he could but the water surrounded him and stung his eyes with salt And he got a title water in his mouth and he spit it out And that happened a bunch'a times Pip saw the ocean and the sky stretching out unimaginably vast And his brain went It became a dream Life became a dream [Sung] Tell me, does the ocean ever rest? Tell me, does the sky love the sea? Tell me [Chorus] Tell me [Father Mapple] Can water be a coffin? Can the sky be a tomb? [Spoken] Tell me, tell me! [Chorus, sung] Tell me [Father Mapple, spoken] Come on, sea Hey, aren't you that same drop of water I saw five minutes ago? Why did you come back here? Huh, I guess I'm the only thing to see for miles around, I guess I'm a star Oh I wish I had my tambourine I'd play, and play, and play I'd make a waterfall inside my heart, would you like that, water? Is that the ocean or is that my tears? Can you taste my tears? How long would I have to cry before you could taste my tears? Centuries? Well I've got all day I've got all day And then his mind began to melt all the way His eyes stung with salt, his ears filled with water, his little legs kicked And all the color washed out of his face And all the color washed out of the world The sea tore his soul and body until they blend into each other He cried out to God but God was already there And the vastness took over And Pip was engulfed [Pip, sung] I'm so alone So alone out here I can't tell anyone anything I'm so alone in here Something happened to my mind I'm no good anymore It burst inside It broke in two It drift apart It sank away [Ishmael, spoken] The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up But carried the infinite of his soul down to wondrous depths Where he saw the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities Pip saw through the mask And therefore, his shipmates called him mad