The Island: Come And See/The Landlord's Daughter/You'll Not Feel The Drowning

There's an island hidden in the sound

Lapping currents lay your boat to ground

Affix your barb and bayonet, the curlews carve their Arabesques

And sorrow fills the silence all around

You come and see

There's a harbor lost within the reeds

A jetty caught in over-hanging trees

Among the bones of cormorants, no boot mark here nor finger prints

The rivers roll down to a soundless sea

That you come and see

Come and see

The tides will come and go witnessed by no waking eye

The willows mark the wind

And though we know for sure amidst this fading light

We'll not go home again

Come and see

Come and see

In the lowlands, nestled in the heat

A brier cradle rocks its babe to sleep

Its contents watched by Sycorax and Patagon in parallax

A foretold rumbling sounds below the deep

You come and see

Come and see

The tides will come and go witnessed by no waking eye

The willows mark the wind

And all we know for sure amidst this fading light

We'll not go home again

Come and see

Come and see

As I was a-ramble down by the water

I spied in sable the landlord's daughter

Produced my pistol then my saber

Said, "Make no whistle

Or thou will be murdered"

Lord

Lord

She cursed, she shivered

She cried for mercy

"My gold and silver

If thou will release me"

Lord

Lord

Lord

I'll take no gold, miss

I'll take no silver

I'll take those sweet lips

And thou will deliver, oh

Lord

Lord

I will dress your eyelids

With dimes upon your eyes

Lay you close to water

Green, your grave will rise

Go to sleep now, little ugly

Go to sleep now, you little fool