Song Description

A romantic meeting at sea with a young woman with a chequered past.

Lyrics

OUT ON THE ROLLIN' SEA - Richard Murray

I love to see skeleton trees flash by on my dashboard
And hear them electric trains a-hummin
And the lights pulse in flight like they're under my fingers
But the angel was found on the rollin' sea

We kept the beat down in the middle of the road
But played with the heart of a brawler
Out of the blue I punched through to the heart of another
An angel out on the rollin' sea

Oooh ooh ooh
The water keeps on rollin'
And I know
It's far we're bound to roam
Ooh ooh ooh
The water keeps on rollin'
And I know
Someday we'll be rollin' home

My luck it needed some tenderising
Someone to take this hammer and beat it down
Just swing that thing around, bring it down like Polly Ann
An angel out on the rollin' sea

Oooh ooh ooh
The water keeps on rollin'
And I know
It's far we're bound to roam
Ooh ooh ooh
The water keeps on rollin'
And I know
Someday we'll be rollin' home

One night I woke from a nightmare of great sadness
And found her there in my arms again
Still eyes that pierce right through the breathless madness
And put me right every now and then

I love to see foreign lands flash by my window
Some pretty as a picture and wounded by their time
From Morocco's injured streets to the Spanish island
Where fire heaved like blood in the heart of the land
And ashes turned to glass at the hands of the healing
Where the harbour lights are warm and fall like tears
They switched those gears and pushed into the night
And I played not for the turnout but for the years
That brought her from the fire heart still burning
And the angel out on the rollin' sea
Yea the angel out on the rollin' sea