| Song | Pearl Diver |
| Artist | David Roth |
| Album | Audio's Audiophile vol.24: Singers.Songwriters |
| 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 |