So I set out on the sea   With a little food for me   And a sharp harpoon for the whale that I'm hunting   The fine women on the shore   They called out "give us more!"   But I have nothing to give (as if I did before)   Before my house burned down last night   And I killed my friends in a fight   So like I said, I paddled out in morning light   To see if I could see    A shape come from the deep   Or if I could hear it's song of love at night taunt me   And though I know I'm getting some   My fingers are getting numb   I sit and toss and the cold waves wash over me   And I've been out here for sixty days   There's no sign of spout or spray   And the cold dark night falls down the flat black sea   And in the calm I close my eyes   I lean back, rock from side to side   I am placid, I have slowly gone starry skies   With half closed eyes   But with a 'thump' 'thump' beneath my boat   Watch the water rise   And storms rage in my skiff crumbles   And the whale beneath assails and humbles   It says: "Knock knock!" from beneath   "You know it's me!   I'm your heart, I'm a whale   I'm the bottom of the deep black sea   My mouth is white and toothy"