Pearl Diver

David Roth – Pearl Diver

I was living very happy

When they came to me

Offered riches for the pearls

Way down in the sea

So I became a pearl diver

Held my breath as I went down

Caught my foot between two rocks

And drowned

Now I am sitting under water

Watching things fall in

Sinking with the weight of knowledge

Greed, desire and sin

Now I am eternal witness

To the tide that man has turned

Pity he will never know

The things that I have learned

The submarines go underneath

The battleships above

And the divers keep on coming

Putting prices on their love

And I can taste the toxic waters

Hear every splash of waste

I see how man has used the sea

Diluting his distaste

The fishes tell me they would like to

Throw a hook up on the land

Snag a man and drag him under

Put him in a can

Watch him fight to breathe the water

Buy him in a store

Cut him up to be their dinner

Throw the bones on shore

Dump their garbage overground

Invade the air with greed

Exploit the wind and use the land

For things that they don’t need

I was living very happy

Until they came to me

Offered riches for the pearls

Way down in the sea

My dream is to be cremated

Not swaying with the tide

But because I wanted more

Than God had given me I died