Hey, I know that you don't want to hear this now,
Remember when you told me how the hurt is gonna fade,
But that don't mean a thing to you, 'cause now your heart is torn and blue,
She took her love away from you,
She took her love away from you.

I thought my lake was deep, but yours is deeper than the Winnipesaukee,
I thought my soul was bleak, but yours...

Your lake is like Lake Payette in Idaho,
Greater than the smiling hole that she knew as a girl,
But you don't need that metaphor when you're stretching at the ocean floor, praying for an open door to nowhere in your world.

I thought my lake was deep, but yours is deeper than the Winnipesaukee,
I thought my soul was bleak, but yours is the salty sea,
I thought my lake was deep, but yours is deeper than the Winnipesaukee,
I thought my soul was bleak, but yours is the salty sea,
It's the salty sea.

(your lake is deeper)

Yeah, I know that hollow feeling in your soul,
You tremble in the terrible cold, even on a shiny day,
And nothing in your world is right, not a trace of morning light,
Nobody to hold you tight,
She took her love away from you.

I thought my lake was deep, but yours is deeper than the Winnipesaukee,
I thought my soul was bleak, but yours is bleaker than the heart of the winter,
I thought my sky was black, but yours is blacker than the soul of the devil,
I thought my heart was blue, but yours is bluer than the Winnipesaukee,
I thought my lake was deep, but yours is the salty sea,
It's the salty sea.