Song | Pearl Diver |
Artist | David Roth |
Album | Audio's Audiophile vol.24: Singers.Songwriters |
Download | Image LRC TXT |
David Roth – Pearl Diver | |
I was living very happy | |
When they came to me | |
Offered riches for the pearls | |
Way down in the sea | |
So I became a pearl diver | |
Held my breath as I went down | |
Caught my foot between two rocks | |
And drowned | |
Now I am sitting under water | |
Watching things fall in | |
Sinking with the weight of knowledge | |
Greed, desire and sin | |
Now I am eternal witness | |
To the tide that man has turned | |
Pity he will never know | |
The things that I have learned | |
The submarines go underneath | |
The battleships above | |
And the divers keep on coming | |
Putting prices on their love | |
And I can taste the toxic waters | |
Hear every splash of waste | |
I see how man has used the sea | |
Diluting his distaste | |
The fishes tell me they would like to | |
Throw a hook up on the land | |
Snag a man and drag him under | |
Put him in a can | |
Watch him fight to breathe the water | |
Buy him in a store | |
Cut him up to be their dinner | |
Throw the bones on shore | |
Dump their garbage overground | |
Invade the air with greed | |
Exploit the wind and use the land | |
For things that they don’t need | |
I was living very happy | |
Until they came to me | |
Offered riches for the pearls | |
Way down in the sea | |
My dream is to be cremated | |
Not swaying with the tide | |
But because I wanted more | |
Than God had given me I died |
David Roth Pearl Diver | |
I was living very happy | |
When they came to me | |
Offered riches for the pearls | |
Way down in the sea | |
So I became a pearl diver | |
Held my breath as I went down | |
Caught my foot between two rocks | |
And drowned | |
Now I am sitting under water | |
Watching things fall in | |
Sinking with the weight of knowledge | |
Greed, desire and sin | |
Now I am eternal witness | |
To the tide that man has turned | |
Pity he will never know | |
The things that I have learned | |
The submarines go underneath | |
The battleships above | |
And the divers keep on coming | |
Putting prices on their love | |
And I can taste the toxic waters | |
Hear every splash of waste | |
I see how man has used the sea | |
Diluting his distaste | |
The fishes tell me they would like to | |
Throw a hook up on the land | |
Snag a man and drag him under | |
Put him in a can | |
Watch him fight to breathe the water | |
Buy him in a store | |
Cut him up to be their dinner | |
Throw the bones on shore | |
Dump their garbage overground | |
Invade the air with greed | |
Exploit the wind and use the land | |
For things that they don' t need | |
I was living very happy | |
Until they came to me | |
Offered riches for the pearls | |
Way down in the sea | |
My dream is to be cremated | |
Not swaying with the tide | |
But because I wanted more | |
Than God had given me I died |
David Roth Pearl Diver | |
I was living very happy | |
When they came to me | |
Offered riches for the pearls | |
Way down in the sea | |
So I became a pearl diver | |
Held my breath as I went down | |
Caught my foot between two rocks | |
And drowned | |
Now I am sitting under water | |
Watching things fall in | |
Sinking with the weight of knowledge | |
Greed, desire and sin | |
Now I am eternal witness | |
To the tide that man has turned | |
Pity he will never know | |
The things that I have learned | |
The submarines go underneath | |
The battleships above | |
And the divers keep on coming | |
Putting prices on their love | |
And I can taste the toxic waters | |
Hear every splash of waste | |
I see how man has used the sea | |
Diluting his distaste | |
The fishes tell me they would like to | |
Throw a hook up on the land | |
Snag a man and drag him under | |
Put him in a can | |
Watch him fight to breathe the water | |
Buy him in a store | |
Cut him up to be their dinner | |
Throw the bones on shore | |
Dump their garbage overground | |
Invade the air with greed | |
Exploit the wind and use the land | |
For things that they don' t need | |
I was living very happy | |
Until they came to me | |
Offered riches for the pearls | |
Way down in the sea | |
My dream is to be cremated | |
Not swaying with the tide | |
But because I wanted more | |
Than God had given me I died |