Gregg Eisenberg Home Albums Booking Bio Contact Photos Videos Events Asked Myself Credits Lyric Credits: Gregg Eisenberg Music Credits: Gregg Eisenberg Producer Credits: Gregg Eisenberg Publisher Credits: Curved-Space Comedy Metadata Song Length 4:14 Primary Genre Folk-Americana Secondary Genre Folk-Contemporary Tempo / Feel Slow (71 - 90) Lead Vocal Male Vocal Subject Matter 1 Breaking Up Subject Matter 2 Ocean, Sea Mood 1 Tranquil Mood 2 Poignant Language English Lyrics When I first took myself down to the sea I asked myself, I asked myself As we pulled out of port I asked myself, asked myself As we looked back to the shore: Could it be, is this the life for me? I saw the circus before it went I got lost in thoughts by the candy floss And the fortune teller's tent I stepped through the crack, he was wearing black And I asked with grave intent: Can you see what this life holds for me? He looked into his crystal ball There a picture grew, it was back when you First cast your magic spell It was burning red when he turned his head And he closed his eyes to tell: Could there be a life for you and me? Then somehow you came into the room I put on my coat and put out my smoke And put up some kind of fight You put down your hair and pulled up a chair And your eyes were shining bright Can't you see, you were big as life to me? Now not all that many years ago When I was a boy back in Illinois You know I had these feelings then And though I traveled far, and paddled hard They live in me again: Could it be, is this the life for me? When I next took myself down to the sea I walked the coast and I talked to ghosts Near a broke-down Spanish fort Then I climbed inside and I testified Before a most angelic court The pounding sea, it spoke that day to me Can't you see, you're big as life to me?