Wave of sorrow
Do not drown me now:
I see the island
Still ahead somehow
I see the island
And its sands are fair:
Wave of sorrow
Take me there
Island was written by John Musto & Langston Hughes.
About the song’s long piano intro, Musto said,
That particular piano lick started in my piano concerto. I liked the undulating quality of it, the assymetrical quality of it.