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Ahab's Song

from The Trains & The Rain by Roy Smiles

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Written & performed by Roy Smiles. Keyboards & produced by Simon Walker, at Loophole Studios, Brighton.

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Ahab’s Song

For many years you’ve roamed lost and far from home
Ahab don’t go back to the sea
Too many years you’ve roamed with a heart like stone
Ahab don’t go back to the sea.

For many years you’ve sailed in search of the whale
Ahab let your passions be
Too many years you’ve failed in your quest for that whale
Ahab set your spirit free.

You left this land like a sailor damned
Ahab don’t go back to the sea
While the years slip by like grains of sand
Ahab don’t go back to the sea.

Chorus
And like Ahab I’ve been searching
Save that love has been my goal
And like Ahab I’ll keep on searching
For only love can save my soul.

Ishmael don’t follow that mad old man
You’ll never return from the sea
Ishmael don’t sail with that damned old man
You’ll never come home from the sea.

Ishmael a whale is a child of god
Mighty and noble and free
If you sail you’ll be damned by god
Ishmael don’t go down to the sea.

Chorus

(Instrumental)

Chorus

Ahab you have a wife and child
You must let your hatred be
The ocean’s a thing too cruel and wild
Ahab don’t go back to the sea.

Love is an ocean left untamed
But I’ll sail in search of my quest
‘Til I find the woman who calls my name
And this heart will find some rest
And this heart will find some rest
And this heart will find some rest.

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from The Trains & The Rain, released May 30, 2015

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk.
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