the wild wild sea

• stingin the soul cages adli 1991 yapimi albumunden bir sarki..
• sting'in müziği ile öykü anlatabilme yetisinin ne kadar yüksek bir düzeyde olduğunu gösteren parçası . kendisi bu şarkıyı soul cages albümünün çıkmasından kısa bir süre önce ölen babasına ithaf etmiştir . dinlemek isteyenlere özellikle unplugged albümündeki versiyonu tavsiye edilir . hatta soul cages albümündeki versiyonunu dinleyip de kulaklarınıza boşuna hasar vermeyin derim .
• (bkz: in the cold cold night)
• sting'in en güzel şarkılarından biri kanımca. sözleri de şöyle:
  
  ı saw it again this evening,
  black sail in a pale yellow sky
  and just as before in a moment,
  ıt was gone where the grey gulls fly
  
  ıf it happens again ı shall worry
  that only a strange ship could fly
  and my sanity scans the horizon
  ın the light of the darkening sky
  
  that night, as ı walked in my slumber
  ı waded into the sea strand
  and ı swam with the moon and her lover
  until ı lost sight of the land
  ı swam till the night became morning
  black sail in a reddening sky
  found myself on the deck of a rolling ship
  so far where no grey gulls fly
  
  all around me was silence
  as if mocking my frail human hopes
  and a question mark hung in the canvas
  for the wind that had died in the ropes
  
  ı may have slept for an hour
  ı may have slept for a day
  for ı woke in a bed of white linen
  and the sky was the colour of clay.
  
  at first, just a rustle of canvas
  and the gentlest breath on my face
  but a galloping line of white horses
  said that soon we were in for a race
  and the gentle sigh turned to a howling
  and the grey sky, she angered to black
  and my anxious eyes searched the horizon
  with the gathering sea at my back
  
  did ı see the shade of a sailor
  on the bridge, through the wheel-house pane
  held fast to the wheel of the rocking ship
  as ı squinted my eyes in the rain?
  for the ship had turned into the wind
  against the storm to brace
  and underneath the sailor's hat
  ı saw my father's face
  
  ıf a prayer today is spoken
  please offer it for me
  when the bridge to heaven is broken
  and you're lost on the wild, wild sea
  and you're lost on the wild, wild sea
  and you're lost on the wild, wild sea
  and you're lost on the wild, wild sea