This song explores what might happen to the old folk song "The Water Is Wide" a few centuries into the future.
Refrain: | The galaxy's wide, worlds are few and far And neither have I hull nor drive Give me a ship that can jump between And none shall part my love and I. |
1. | There is a ship out between the stars Her holds are full, she's homeward bound And no less full is my heart with love Yet no star's pull can draw me down. |
2. | I found a world blue and green with life I thought to land and call her mine But she'd been claimed, and they warned me off And so I left that world behind. |
3. | My suit was bound safe to my ship I thought the line would ne'er come free But first it frayed, and then it broke And so my false love did unto me. |
4. | Oh love burns brightly, and love burns warm And love's a nova within your soul But love grows dim, and closes in And leaves your heart a cold black hole. |