The Cormorant

Album: The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (2021)
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  • Am I imprisoned on this island?
    I have tried, have tried to swim away
    Out to the buoy
    Ebony rose
    But the current's too strong
    I now drift, daydreaming
    To when we were happy here, on this beach
    We played with our children
    And they were happy too

    Tipping goes the cormorant
    I think she knows I'm a pathetic intruder
    Into the abyss
    And I have watched her too
    From the stoney beach
    That was black in the last year
    Before the storm
    Elsewhere sometimes
    I can see beyond the lighthouse

    The uncharted cruise ship
    Anchored way off
    As though the last party on Earth continues
    To vast horizons
    Container ships
    Full of glass vials

    Daily life Writer/s: Damon Albarn, Simon Tong
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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