Exclusive Release - "Captain Ulysses"

Two nights ago I slept uneasy. I keep waking, worrying about bills and money, and lost income, and the way the industry had changed into something that no longer paid for music.  Things that always feel out of my control, that could end everything I have made. I'd wake, and worry about something for an hour, and then fall back asleep and dream another nightmare...

The final nightmare was about a old man, standing on the beach in a storm. Behind him was his ship, shattered on the rocks, and he was drenched, and bloody and angry. In futility of it all had driven him insane, and so each time a wave came at him, he'd strike it with his fists, which had no effect but to drench him, and bring him a little closer to drowning.

Finally, around 4:00am, i woke and wrote these lyrics. That day I recorded the song, and today I finished it. his is an exclusive release, and this song has been heard by nobody but me, Kristina, and now you.

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"Captain Ulysses"

Captain Ulysses
Stood on the shore
exhausted  and angry and spent.

The sea had recently
taken his ship
He was salty and bloody and bent.

Each wave struck him,
as angry he yelled,
And he swung his fists at the sea.

But rentless they battered
and turned him and drenched him,
And knocked him down to his knee.

"I've fought against you
nearly all of my life!
and the battle has wearied my soul."

But the sea pulled back
for one final hit,
then it struck him and swallowed him whole.  

Fighting The Ocean,
the turbulent motion
was pointless as oceans transform

Breaking and crashing
consuming and bashing
change or you’ll  lose to the storm  

Each wave struck him,
as angry he yelled,
And he swung his fists at the sea.

rentless they battered
and turned him and drenched him,
And knocked him down to his knee.

"I've fought against you
nearly all of my life!,
and the battle has wearied my soul."

But the sea pulled back
for one final hit,
then it struck him and swallowed him whole.  

Fighting The Ocean,
the turbulent motion
was pointless as oceans transform

Breaking and crashing  
consuming and bashing  
change or you’ll  lose to the storm  

Fighting The Ocean,
the turbulent motion
was pointless and useless
it mocked his devotion  
for oceans  and currents
will ebb and will always transform

Breaking and crashing
consuming and bashing
destroying direction
invoking rejection
change and transform
or you always will lose to the storm