There’s a million miles between me and the love of a life I have lost
Had my fill of krill and seaweed, now on these lonely shores have I washed
Up on hundreds of miles of dead rock, sunlight filling my blistering eyes
All while high up above my head flock gulls and albatross, circling the skies
Sure as any old seadog’ll tell it (now I’m certain it isn’t a lie)
When you’re dying, the seabirds can smell it, and I’m cursing the gods as I cry
Can’t you hear me, darling, calling out to thee? Forget me not! Don’t let me rot!
Ninety million miles between me and the sun that I’ve come to despise
Shining brilliant on the seaweed, slowly burning two holes in my eyes
Not a single soul surviving; from my shipwreck, I’m surely the last
Ninety billion neurons firing; not a single one’s up to the task
Of devising a means of survival on this island of nothing but salt
Perhaps I’d feel suicidal if I had any feeling at all
As the night falls, it’s a mercy, for the light in my eyes has all left
And if I wasn’t so thirsty, I might finally be able to rest
But the air’s so cold, it hurts me, and my misery’s only prolonged
When a voice so otherworldly sings an eerie, mysterious song
Can’t you hear me calling, poor thing lost at sea? I’m waiting here! Nothing to fear!
Do my desperate ears deceive me? Has my sanity finally snapped?
Has reality ruptured completely? Could my mind have imagined all that?
When exhaustion eventually takes me, still my slumber is anxious and short
As I dream of endless waking, comes a memory haunting my thoughts
Of a voice so otherworldly – it was real, now of that I am sure –
And it scares me more than scurvy, for I fear that I’ve heard tell before
Of a creature that looks girly, as a maiden green seamen might crave
Though her locks be bright and curly, in disguise is a demon depraved
In unlucky waters lurks she, with a song that will make you her slave
And on cursed nights most murky, the wind whispers it out of the waves
Those who hear are damned most surely, without hope that they’ll ever be saved
For she drags ‘em screaming early to that terrible watery grave! To that terrible watery grave!
Can’t you hear me, darling? Come and see to me, I’m all alone, come say hello!
Down here with me, darling, now your pain is over! You’re set free, your soul to me, eternally, beneath the sea!
There’s a million miles between me and the world that I used to call home.
I can’t tell if I’m still dreaming; seems so long now that I’ve been alone.
No one living ever sees me, and my fate is forever unknown.
Still, I’m always smiling keenly since my flesh has been stripped to the bone.
