The Ocean Doesn't Want Me

Tom Waits · Bone Machine [1992]

The ocean doesn't want me today

But I'll be back tomorrow to play



The strangels will take me deep down in their brine

The mischievous brangles

Down into the endless blue wine



I'll open my head and let out all of my time



I'd love to go drowning

And to stay and to stay



But the ocean doesn't want me today



I'll go in up to here

It can't possibly hurt

All they will find is my beer and my shirt



The riptide is raging

And the lifeguard is away



But the ocean doesn't want me today



But the ocean doesn't want me today



...The ocean doesn't want me today