The Drones - The Island lyrics
[The Drones - The Island lyrics]
When we got back to the island
With it's pinched and brown faces
We felt so ill at ease we scratched
Kept our eyes low and we quarrelled
By day the flies came and
By night the mosquitoes
As angry as I and I became dazed
The light was so hard and the liquor was hazy
Why we ever came back here
Man I won't never know
What does quarantine mean when
You can't get home?
And why do I ask you when I
Know that you do not know?
Then in May the news came and
We were on our own
My friends left on the sly
Their boat rocked slow and lazy
While me and the rent dreamt of getting paid
But when we left we weren't
Feeling all that bad
We parted company on a beach where it rolled
All silver and blonde like the lid of an eye
That won't ever close rested
Over waters this tireless
And if the sun is a demon
Let a demon be white
Let the days sink like it's
Footprints under needles of light
In the bars on the island
Men have hands like mine
And stomachs about as dead as fishes eyes
On the streets all the women
Hide behind their fly screens
You can't make out their faces
And they know you can't see
There's a graveyard that's waiting
Just outside of time
And a church house to flesh out
The skeleton of your mind
The church walls breed shadows where
The children bare feet
Watch the vines spill from everywhere
Out into the heat
All knuckled and gnarled like a bad memory
With their tropical flowers like a
Shriek in your ear
Like her shrieks in your ear
This steeple of wood
Above which the jungle looms patient
We're fucked now and we're fucked for keeps
Oh Lord grant me one more deciduous season
Then grant me a winter like so many tears
With it's pinched and brown faces
We felt so ill at ease we scratched
Kept our eyes low and we quarrelled
By day the flies came and
By night the mosquitoes
As angry as I and I became dazed
The light was so hard and the liquor was hazy
Why we ever came back here
Man I won't never know
What does quarantine mean when
You can't get home?
And why do I ask you when I
Know that you do not know?
Then in May the news came and
We were on our own
My friends left on the sly
Their boat rocked slow and lazy
While me and the rent dreamt of getting paid
But when we left we weren't
Feeling all that bad
We parted company on a beach where it rolled
All silver and blonde like the lid of an eye
That won't ever close rested
Over waters this tireless
And if the sun is a demon
Let a demon be white
Let the days sink like it's
Footprints under needles of light
In the bars on the island
Men have hands like mine
And stomachs about as dead as fishes eyes
On the streets all the women
Hide behind their fly screens
You can't make out their faces
And they know you can't see
There's a graveyard that's waiting
Just outside of time
And a church house to flesh out
The skeleton of your mind
The church walls breed shadows where
The children bare feet
Watch the vines spill from everywhere
Out into the heat
All knuckled and gnarled like a bad memory
With their tropical flowers like a
Shriek in your ear
Like her shrieks in your ear
This steeple of wood
Above which the jungle looms patient
We're fucked now and we're fucked for keeps
Oh Lord grant me one more deciduous season
Then grant me a winter like so many tears