Shearwater - An Insular Life lyrics

A calm, then the roaring wall of the eye As we sailed to the world from an insular life From the boughs that had sheltered us all of our lives From the sun's red blooming With a shadow on every life And we laid in the dark through the thundering nights And awoke to an ocean shimmering white Where the hull scrapes on the silent ice And the gulls on the frozen ropes Oh, the lights on the floor let the audience rise Let them file through the halls still a**ured in their lives Until the sky shudders open impossibly wide And the room glows in the sudden light They are gone, they are gone for life