Once more, with feeling.
Singing it louder this time...
On a night just like this in a place far away, he met with a girl in the spring.
Something about him just turned her around, as though she were caught on a string.
Being so young they held on to each other, to see what the moment might bring.
He loved her then in a secretive way, not showing his care or his need.
She stayed beside him and looked to the day he would somehow begin to be free.
In the chill of the night she would hold him and say this is how they always should be:
"Rocks in the ocean, waves on the sea.
Keep it in mind, if love comes unsatisfied, don't forget me."
And so he came to depend on her more, though the lesson was still to be learned.
Taking for granted the gift that she gave, as though it were something he'd earned.
She for her part growing slowly away from a love that was never returned.
Ah, then came the day that he never foresaw when he woke to find she was gone.
He followed her then to the ends of the world, to tell her how much he'd been wrong.
But the more he called her the more she was lost, leaving only the words of her song.
"Rocks in the ocean, waves on the sea.
Keep it in mind, if love comes unsatisfied, don't forget me."
On a night just like this in a place far away, he met with a girl in the spring.
Something about him just turned her around, as though she were caught on a string.
Being so young they held on to each other, to see what the moment might bring.
He loved her then in a secretive way, not showing his care or his need.
She stayed beside him and looked to the day he would somehow begin to be free.
In the chill of the night she would hold him and say this is how they always should be:
"Rocks in the ocean, waves on the sea.
Keep it in mind, if love comes unsatisfied, don't forget me."
And so he came to depend on her more, though the lesson was still to be learned.
Taking for granted the gift that she gave, as though it were something he'd earned.
She for her part growing slowly away from a love that was never returned.
Ah, then came the day that he never foresaw when he woke to find she was gone.
He followed her then to the ends of the world, to tell her how much he'd been wrong.
But the more he called her the more she was lost, leaving only the words of her song.
"Rocks in the ocean, waves on the sea.
Keep it in mind, if love comes unsatisfied, don't forget me."