Oceanic Heritage Lyrics

Ough!

From the sea we were born

Unto land from salt waves worn

Living off the depths' resource

But now we dwell in dread remorse

Because of foreign lack of care

Our people sleep in dark despair

Raped our ocean, killed our creed

In modern day our coffers bleed

What could we do in retrospect?

In times of greed and no respect

When the impact is unknown

From stripping Earth down to the bone

Now we languish on the shore

For the fishery is no more

Though capelin roll still on the beach

From the brine the crown would leech

Now that we've gone through one way of life

We've got to find another

Drill deep down into the ground

Violate our earthen mother

Machinery for economy

To extract her obsidian blood

But are oil spills for cheaper thrills

Worth killing the land we love?

Bloodletting can only go so far

Before the life source starts to fade

How much longer can our people

Keep playing this grim charade?

What shall become of this island

Another century down the road?

Abandoned hopes and towns of ghosts

Left scattered amidst the bones

Ocean, lifeblood, dried up, now we weep

Ocean, bare hooks, dead looks, from the deep

Ocean, nihilist, violence, in red waves

Ocean, blood spilled, purse filled, with red wage

Beached whales and shattered dreams

Are tidewrack on a plastic beach

Ocean, lifeblood, dried up, now we weep

Ocean, bare hooks, dead looks, from the deep

Ocean, nihilist, violence, in red waves

Ocean, blood spilled, purse filled, with red wage

Capsized from our misdeeds

Like bleached bones amongst seaweed

Dark days shall lie ahead

Now that the bays are bled

Ocean, lifeblood, dried up, now we weep

Ocean, bare hooks, dead looks, from the deep

Ocean, nihilist, violence, in red waves

Ocean, blood spilled, purse filled, with red wage

Beached whales and shattered dreams

Are tidewrack on a plastic beach

Ocean, lifeblood, dried up, now we weep

Ocean, bare hooks, dead looks, from the deep

Ocean, nihilist, violence, in red waves

Ocean, blood spilled, purse filled, with red wage

Ocean, lifeblood, dried up, now we weep

Ocean, bare hooks, dead looks, from the deep

Ocean, nihilist, violence, in red waves

Ocean, blood spilled, purse filled, with red wage

Ocean, blood spilled, purse filled, with red wage