I Need a Boat. Music and Lyrics by Sarah Crews

I need a boat to move across this water

I’ll build it strong enough for three

I think we’ll float this sea of tears forever

Trying to find you while we sleep

I cannot stop searching for you, my darling

In all the places you should be

Don’t want to drown in this sea of sorrow

I need a boat to rescue me.

A thousand hearts were broken

But ten thousand more were opened

When your soul dropped to the ocean

Sending waves out to the shore

And the sky cried a deluge

While the whales sang your name

You should have stayed

But you have changed this lovely world.

Somehow the sun stays in the sky morning to evening

Somehow the tides still rise and fall

Somehow the stars still shine

And I continue breathing

Without you being here at all.

I’ll sail away to the land of Zion

I’ll place your name in that sad wall

I’ll see your face in the eyes of strangers

I’ll feel your heartbeat inside my own.

A thousand hearts were broken

But ten thousand more were opened

When your soul dropped to the ocean

Sending waves out to the shore

And the sky cried a deluge

While the whales sang your name

You should have stayed

But you have changed this lovely world.