The Coral Castle

Late one night I had a notion An epiphany would be a better word So I stumbled in the dark down to the ocean And I pulled my broken heart out of the surf I had told her I did not have much to offer And I had told her I would treat her like a queen But I guess I wasn't worth what I would cost her So the night has brought me to this coral reef So down to the water I will come To raise for her this castle with my hands And steal away before the morning comes Cause I don't need her love to love her all I can So night on night and year on year Well, I worked until my hands no longer bled And I let the ocean bear away my tears So that she would know that I could love her best And a desert's just a sea without a shore And a lonely man at worst is still a man And I ain't gonna cry for her no more Cause I don't need her love to love her all I can I often dreamed I saw her face among the people Who'd come to see the coral fortress I had built But it may as well have been another seagull And the castle is there waiting for her still So down to the water I will come To wander through this castle on the sand And steal away before the morning sun Cause I don't need her love to love her all I can I don't need her love to love her all I can