Couldn't Know

The sun beats down on my tan and my well fed body

And the fishermen down at the end of the pier

Strike a cord of curiosity with their thick lines

They caught something big and they asked me, could I lend a hand?

Want you to see, what I, what I could not see

I want you to know, what I, I could not know

They got the webs down underneath her

And we started to pull her up

As she started to abandon all her children

As she got alongside the pier

I stared into her one sad eye

And I, I began to dream

I want you to see, what I, what I could not see

I want you to know, what I, what I could not know

The most beautiful thing I've ever seen

Oh she's staring back at me

She was eight feet long and she weighed four hundred twenty pounds

And I named all her children in hopes that they'd obtain some degree of her perfection

And it will take them all two years to hit the water

I want you to see, what I, what I could not see

I want you to know, what I, what I could not know

The most beautiful thing I've ever seen

Oh she's staring back at me

Here's the rub

She, she's not coming back

And that's why, I sing this song

I could not know that my that my son

I could not see, what I'd become

Believe

To bring her back

To take it away, everything