Analysis of SEA CREATURE

Deep, deep down, in the sea, where nothing else ought to be
There lives a creature that shouldn’t be

This creature lives on dreams you see
This creature deep beneath the sea

When all is still in dead of night
When children sleep with thoughts of fright

This creature leaves the salty sea
And looks for dreamers, like you and me

It isn’t good to dream, you see
It draws the creature from the sea
And when it comes on cool still nights
It’s bound to be a scary sight.

I did not know it was around
Until I heard the swishing sound
The darkness held it’s ghostly fright
I knew it was, just out of sight

And with a step, the stars were gone
There was no light, there was no sun
 I told myself this cannot be
 Not to a dreamer just like me

There was not fear or despair
The fear of darkness was not there
The creature had instilled in me
 A sense that it would care for me

Deep in the sea we traveled, we.
And talked of things we could not see
A thousand nights, a thousand days
We traveled on beneath the waves

My heart is filled with love for thee
For there is only one of me
All my life I roamed the sea
And found none to compare to thee

There used to be a tribe of me
We’d sing and dance beneath the sea
But now there’s one and only one
And now my day has almost come

Darkness has come over me
A darkness that is calling me
To deeper places neath the sea
To seek the ones who’ve gone from me

And now my work is almost done
And when I’m gone there will be none
None to share the dreams you see
The dreams of lovers of the sea

John Ricard 3/21/05