The Style Council
The Style Council
The Style Council
The Style Council
The Style Council
The Style Council
The Style Council
The Style Council
The Style Council
The Style Council
The Style Council
A rich but stark, predominantly piano-based piece in which the narrator ruminates on his inability to let sleeping dogs lie. Largely self-explanatory, he uses deep sea diving as a metaphor for turning over and re-examining the wreckage of his past, never finding Spanish galleons, but rather tragedy...
I'll keep on diving til I reach the ends
Dredging up the past to drive me round the bends
What is it in me that I can't forget
I keep finding so much that I now regret
But no, on I go down into the depths
Turning things over that are better left
Dredging up the past that has gone for good
Trying to polish up what is rotting wood
Diving, diving
Diving, diving
I'm diving
Something inside takes me down again
Diving not for goblets but tin cans
Dredging up the past for reasons so rife
Passing bits of wrecks that once passed for life
But I'll keep on diving till I drown the sea
Of things not worth, even mentioning
Perhaps I'll come to the surface and come to my senses
But it's a very deep sea around my own devices
Diving, diving
Diving, diving
Come to the surface and come to my senses now
Come to the surface and come to my senses now
Come to the surface and come to my senses now
Diving, diving
I'm diving
It’s a Very Deep Sea was written by Paul Weller.
It’s a Very Deep Sea was produced by Mick Talbot & Paul Weller.
The Style Council released It’s a Very Deep Sea on Mon Jun 20 1988.