We were always rivers flowing From the meadows to the light sea It's nineteen miles to the coast The birds are crowded around Payphones and their beaks re-devouring Every last seed that they saw This was a war Donna is like some boat We break our paddles in woe A wake is full of woe So blow that boat I'm deficient in my jaw Nights have been kidding around with the captain's son I miss you when the sea hisses its white call I'm a wait for you by the shore One hundred tapestries; but did you sow this?
Judas I know you're with her but: Donna lies She burnt the orphanage, but saved the payroll In case the accountant came along So dutiful We shall row into wakes full of woe And downstairs is below waterlines Meaning below deck has no sense of star's sight Appraised still of the sorrow of her flight We row we shall escape this bay No no don't let us sin I seen the lighthouse under the floor I seen the lighthouse light sink underneath the floor