Caribbean Sea

From Paul: I actually wrote this song during a cruise that my wife and I were taking in the Western Caribbean. I started it in Haiti and by the time we got to Cozumel, viola. I am sure you can see the Buffet influences in the lyric. Well the melody has it too! But the song taps into that fantasy that we all have of a moment of isolation, and the split-second thought of leaving it all behind.

Copyright 2004 Paul C. Black. All Rights Reserved
All Wrongs Avenged!

Sitting here under a Caribbean sky
 I don’t have a care in the world.
 I watch the Chiquita’s and drink margaritas
 And work on my tan while the cruise ships go by.

I had to escape, had to leave it behind.
 The corporate life wasn’t for me.
 Smokin’ Havana’s and eatin’ banana’s
 Breath the salt air ‘til it clears out my mind

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 There’s no place that I’d rather be
 Than by my Caribbean Sea
 There’s  no other place for me
 Than my Caribbean Sea
 So turn on the lights and turn up the music
 The reggae band plays until three
 Pretend that I’m on my own private island
 In the crystal blue Caribbean Sea

I’ve been to Hell, I love the Caymans in June
 I drink my Ting in Kingston Bay
 The smell of the rum and the chime of steel drums
 Strolling the beach under a St. Thomas moon

Try if you can to find a place with more charm
 Or people as friendly as these.
 You take the snow where it’s 20 below
 And I will be basking where the weather is warm.

Chorus
 

I never knew there could be so much beauty
 The sun and the sand and don’t forget all those cuties.

Chorus