Neptune I think I'm in love with the sea
How do I woo you and make you love me
I'm drenched by your passion, enthralled by your anger
Becalmed by your beauty, how do I make you love me?
But when he spoke, it was a plea not a roar.
If you want my love, then go and tell them all:
Don't oil my beaches, don't slaughter my whales
Don't cross me with diesel, cross me with sail.
Give me some time to heal up my wounds,
Give me more poison and I will die soon.
Neptune, I don't understand what you fear.
Here on my islands your waters are clear.
I live from your riches, your birds and your fishes
I never would choke you, what do you need from me?
But when he spoke of all the change caused by me,
Your damage seems small, but let me recall:
In your grandfathers day there ran salmon, you could walk on their backs
Now what's left of great shoals, those that slipped through the cracks
Now the salmon's in cages, gorged on fish meal
Sucked from some other sea by cruel profiteers
Neptune I think I'm in love with the sea
How do I woo you and make you love me
I'm drenched by your passion, enthralled by your anger
Becalmed by your beauty, how do I make you love me?
But when he spoke, it was a plea not a roar.
If you want my love, then go and tell them all:
Don't oil my beaches, don't slaughter my whales
Don't cross me with diesel, cross me with sail.
Give me some time to heal up my wounds,
Give me more poison and I will die soon.
How do I woo you and make you love me
I'm drenched by your passion, enthralled by your anger
Becalmed by your beauty, how do I make you love me?
But when he spoke, it was a plea not a roar.
If you want my love, then go and tell them all:
Don't oil my beaches, don't slaughter my whales
Don't cross me with diesel, cross me with sail.
Give me some time to heal up my wounds,
Give me more poison and I will die soon.
Neptune, I don't understand what you fear.
Here on my islands your waters are clear.
I live from your riches, your birds and your fishes
I never would choke you, what do you need from me?
But when he spoke of all the change caused by me,
Your damage seems small, but let me recall:
In your grandfathers day there ran salmon, you could walk on their backs
Now what's left of great shoals, those that slipped through the cracks
Now the salmon's in cages, gorged on fish meal
Sucked from some other sea by cruel profiteers
Neptune I think I'm in love with the sea
How do I woo you and make you love me
I'm drenched by your passion, enthralled by your anger
Becalmed by your beauty, how do I make you love me?
But when he spoke, it was a plea not a roar.
If you want my love, then go and tell them all:
Don't oil my beaches, don't slaughter my whales
Don't cross me with diesel, cross me with sail.
Give me some time to heal up my wounds,
Give me more poison and I will die soon.