The Cormorant (Live at Union Chapel)

[Verse 1]
Am I imprisoned on this island?
I have tried, I've 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

[Verse 2]
Tipping goes the cormorant
I think she knows I'm a pathetic intruder
Into the abyss
But, I have watched her too
On the stoney beach
That was black in the last year before the storm
Elsewhere, sometimes
I can see beyond the lighthouse

[Verse 3]
The uncharted cruise ships
Anchored way off
As though the last parties on Earth
Continued to vast horizons
Of container ships full of glass vials
Glass vials, glass vials

[Outro]
Thank you