The Bitter Sea

"The Bitter Sea"
Song by Monstro
Album	Ocean Floor Demos
Released	2003
Recorded	2003
Length	4:23
Status	Demo circulating
Ocean Floor Demos track listing
"Overjoyed" (4) "The Bitter Sea" (5) "Elementary" (6)

"The Bitter Sea" is a track on the Ocean Floor Demos, the 2003 demo album by Monstro. Track listings varied across copies of the demo, but the one in circulation among fans has "The Bitter Sea" as the 12th track.

Appearances

• Ocean Floor Demos

Overview

The song appears to be loosely based off William Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, featuring references to three characters from it. These characters are Ariel, Caliban, and the “Witch”, who is named Sycorax in the play

Lyrics

High above the mountains and the sea
(Oh, oh)
No one here but Ariel and me
(Oh, oh)

The valley is a cup to drink from
Water falls and comes back up
And nothing bothers me
Nothing bothers me

Taste the blood and chocolate on your tongue
(Oh, oh)
This bitter sea will keep you always young
(Oh, oh)

I woke up and one of us is howling at the moon
But that don’t bother me
(Oh, oh)
Because nothing bothers me

Making me drunk
But that’s alright
It’s almost time anyway

Ariel’s inside the poison tree
(Oh, oh)
Afflicted with the Witch’s legacy
(Oh, oh)

The valley is a weeping ocean
Water falls and keeps on falling
But nothing bothers me
(Oh, oh)
Nothing bothers me

No one here but Ariel and me
(Oh, oh)
Reminded of our consanguinity
(Oh, oh)

Nothing here that does not change
Into something rich and strange
Beneath the bitter sea
(Oh, oh)
Nothing bothers me

Pulling me down
But that’s okay
I would have gone anyway

Far below the mountains and the sea
(Oh, oh)
No one here but Caliban and me
(Oh, oh)

Four fathoms fired by fraught of us
Though suppose the world is ours
Beneath the bitter sea
(Oh, oh)
Nothing bothers me
(Oh, oh)

Beneath the bitter sea
Beneath the bitter sea

See also

• List of Daniel Brummel songs
• Monstro
• Ocean Floor Demos