About The Song
“Sea of Heartbreak” is a song written by Paul Hampton and Hal David and recorded by Don Gibson in 1961. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]
The song describes the feelings of lost love, and compares them to being lost in a metaphorical sea of intensely sad emotion (to an, at least in the chorus and in the overall impression, surprisingly cheery tune). It contains three verses with a chorus at the beginning and ending, and in between verses. As well as a bridge before the third verse. The chorus lines are:-
Sea of heartbreak, lost love an’ loneliness;
Memories of your caress, so divine
I wish you were mine again, my dear.
I am on this sea of tears:
Sea of heartbreak.
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Lyrics
The lights in the harbor
Don’t shine for me
I’m like a lost ship
Adrift on the sea
Sea of heartbreak
Lost love and loneliness
Memories of your caress
So divine, I wish
You were mine again, my dear
I’m on this sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak
(Sea of heartbreak, heartbreak)
How did I lose you?
Oh, where did I fail?
Why did you leave me?
Always to sail
This sea of heartbreak
Lost love and loneliness
Memories of your caress
So divine, how I wish
You were mine again, my dear
I am on the sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak
(Sea of heartbreak, ahh)
Oh, what I’d give to sail back to shore
Back to your arms once more
Oh, come to my rescue
Come here to me
Take me and keep me
Away from the sea
Yes, this sea of heartbreak
Lost love and loneliness
Memories of your caress
So divine, how I wish
You were mine again, my dear
I’m on the sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak
It’s a sea of heartbreak
(Sea of heartbreak, ahh)