An Ocean of Strange Islands Lyrics

An Ocean of Strange Islands Lyrics

A mariner under a sky moonlit

On an island of a crewless ship

A few decades of immortality ahead

A one-man crew for a one-way trip

Islands, islands everywhere

I keep my range with crowded sails

My waves, they kiss every shore I land

Steep cliffs will mock my waving hand

Islanders, villagers, universal mariners

Calling me, guiding me, monsters far beneath

Hurricanes on the way, lunatic weathervanes

Shipwrecked lovers on a faraway cay

Passing by butterflies, fluttering for a day

Jokers, jesters, Goddesses, hominidae

Deep delicious blue beneath

I'll steer wherever tomorrow is near

Light a beacon so I can navigate

Through the tempest, through the madness

Light a homefire for the sad man with a begging hand

Light a beacon so I can navigate

Through the tempest following the quintet

Ride on the highest wave

Bring me to life

To them who dance in the daylight

Sail and seek

The starbound quay

Calling you, calling me

To be a part of your story

Here raining ash to cover the dead

An island of the past wrecks

Of you, of the endless sundown

Hemlock meadows, deepest quicksand

Empty harbor by a wasteland

Mirrors, mirrors, everywhere

For you of mad despair

Friends, who were for a time

Now grapes of sour wine

Lords of a single fly

Still, I rue no island of shared solitude

You who glow in deepest woe

Let it be, retiree, the water's fine

Sail carefree

Sail and seek

The starbound quay

Calling you, calling me

To be a part of your story

On these strange islands