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Earth, stream, and tree encircled by sea
Waves sweep the sand from my island
My sunsets fade
Field and glade wait only for rain
Grain after grain, love erodes my
High weathered walls which fend off the tide
Cradle the wind
To my island
Gaunt granite climbs where gulls wheel and glide
Mournfully cry o'er my island
My dawn bride's veil, damp and pale
Dissolves in the sun
Love's web is spun, cats prowl, mice run
Wreathe snatch-hand briers where owls know my eyes
Violet skies
Touch my island
Touch me
Beneath the wind turned wave
Infinite peace
Islands join hands 'neath heaven's sea
Beneath the wind turned wave
Infinite peace
Islands join hands 'neath heaven's sea
Dark harbor quays like fingers of stone
Hungrily reach from my island
Clutch sailor's words, pearls and gourds
Are strewn on my shore
Equal in love, bound in circles
Earth, stream, and tree return to the sea
Waves sweep the sand from my island
From me
Beneath the wind turned wave
Infinite peace
Islands join hands 'neathe heaven's sea
It-it has a number of high spots, that i enjoy each this time
What are we going to do, um, do it twice more
Once with the oboe, once without it
And then, we've finished for the evening
Right
(It'll be nine o'clock soon, John)
(Okay, we're rolling, whenever you're ready, on three)
Three
One, two, three, two, two, three
Waves sweep the sand from my island
My sunsets fade
Field and glade wait only for rain
Grain after grain, love erodes my
High weathered walls which fend off the tide
Cradle the wind
To my island
Gaunt granite climbs where gulls wheel and glide
Mournfully cry o'er my island
My dawn bride's veil, damp and pale
Dissolves in the sun
Love's web is spun, cats prowl, mice run
Wreathe snatch-hand briers where owls know my eyes
Violet skies
Touch my island
Touch me
Beneath the wind turned wave
Infinite peace
Islands join hands 'neath heaven's sea
Beneath the wind turned wave
Infinite peace
Islands join hands 'neath heaven's sea
Dark harbor quays like fingers of stone
Hungrily reach from my island
Clutch sailor's words, pearls and gourds
Are strewn on my shore
Equal in love, bound in circles
Earth, stream, and tree return to the sea
Waves sweep the sand from my island
From me
Beneath the wind turned wave
Infinite peace
Islands join hands 'neathe heaven's sea
It-it has a number of high spots, that i enjoy each this time
What are we going to do, um, do it twice more
Once with the oboe, once without it
And then, we've finished for the evening
Right
(It'll be nine o'clock soon, John)
(Okay, we're rolling, whenever you're ready, on three)
Three
One, two, three, two, two, three
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First of all, you very much for this comment.. I've never actually listened to this album as a whole.. Anyways; the album consists of 6 songs?!<br /> <br /> Side one<br /> <br />
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You just gave me an amazing insight on what I thought was (except for Formentera Lady amd this song) a fairly hollow album for KC standards. I just listened to it again and I liked it a whole lot more that I used to. Thank you.
Possibly Peter Sinfield's finest lyrical turn. The individual and the universal are shown to be connected through ritual, symbolism, myth, nature, language, the arts, but most of all....love.
Islands is possibly the most divisive and polarizing album in the KC catalog, because the emphasis is more on feel rather than pure technique.
Never before and never since, would the band visit a place this tranquil and open. Somehow, melancholy sits alongside sun flecked innocence, and a darkened sky illuminates a sandy shore.
we're all islands...
Great song.
I can see why Peter Sinfield's lyrics often got bashed; he tries too hard to make high poetry instead of verbal accompaniment to the music, which can be distancing & very high faultin' in a song. On the other hand, unlike most lyrics these kind of words can stand on their own without the music. Its when combined with those densley woven jazz fusion tunes KC is know for that they can stick out like a sore thumb
It's strange to me that when someone writes poetry like this in modern(ish) times it's considered pretentious, but if it's old, it's respectable.