from the bluff you can see a thousand miles

from the bluff you can see a thousand miles, a thousand miles of ocean.
from the bluff you can see a thousand miles of nothing but sky and sea.

in the house on the bluff by the ocean
live a ma and a pa and a boy.
round the house on the bluff the wind blows rough.
iron sky, steely rain, alloy.

from the bluff you can see a thousand miles, a thousand miles of ocean.
from the bluff you can see a thousand miles of nothing but sky and sea.

to the house on the bluff comes a message
all boys are to come to the king.
the boy cries all day, he wants badly to stay.
ma and pa, they don't say a thing.

from the bluff you can see a thousand miles, a thousand miles of ocean.
from the bluff you can see a thousand miles of nothing but sky and sea.

in the house on the bluff by the ocean
live a ma and a pa with a child
whom they nurture and raise for five thousand days
as susurrant waves beguile.

from the bluff you can see a thousand miles, a thousand miles of ocean.
from the bluff you can see a thousand miles of nothing but sky and sea.

the house and the child and the family
near the ocean and wide open sky...
if what you can see is all you believe,
then you will never ask why.

from the bluff you can see a thousand miles, a thousand miles of ocean.
from the bluff you can see a thousand miles of nothing but sky and sea.