There's a place by the water where the sea stands to win, Where the waves bend their heads as if in grief And there's a hole in the levee where the tide washes in You'd be amazed at what is left when it recedes Songs buried with a friend Drift back to flood your eyes again Drowned, renounced, disowned They crawl back home to grow And it seems it never will let you go And never, oh, never fade The hole where your heart belongs Will remain Don't turn your back on that dark pool What it swallows, it keeps, Forever rolling in the billows You know that if the wind turns inland, Breakers white over the shoals, All it carries will be flung back up on the shore 'Cause some things have no end The waves will bring them back again To join their own Sad and cold and slow And it seems it never will let you go And never, oh, never fade The hole where your heart belongs Will remain Dead things born again Dead things brought home again You know it won't let you go And never, oh, never fade The hole where your heart belongs Will remain