Sea Salt - John Vanderslice

Sun shines on the Gaza Strip

Smiles on the back alleys of Madrid

Comes off the stone like a burning whip

But it’s night here on the ridge

And the snowfall adds up inch by inch

I’ve wasted my days

Battered and ground down by wave upon wave

Of bitter envy and unremitting hate

But there’s no one I hated more

Than the man that stands before you now

I was humbled just in time

No longer king in a skull-sized castle

Endless waves had ground me down to dust

For the first time I could take to air

I was free now, I could go anywhere