The Island-come & See/the Landlord's Daughter/you'll Not Feel The Drowning Lyrics - The Crane Wife - Decemberists

There's an island hidden in the sound 

Lapping currents lay your boat to ground 

Affix your barb and bayonet, the curlews carve their Arabesques 

And sorrow fills the silence all around, you come and see 

There's a harbor lost within the reeds 

A jetty caught in over-hanging trees 

Among the bones of cormorants, no boot mark here nor finger prints 

The rivers roll down to a soundless sea, you come and see 

Come and see 

The tides will come and go witnessed by no waking eye 

Who rose like the wind 

Though we know for sure amidst this fading light 

We'll not go home again, come and see 

Come and see 

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In the lowlands, nestled in the heat 

A brier cradle rocks its babe to sleep 

Its contents watched by Sycorax and patagon in paralax 

A foretold rumbling sounds below the deep, you come and see 

Come and see 

The tides will come and go witnessed by no waking eye 

Who rose like the wind 

Though we know for sure amidst this fading light 

We'll not go home again, come and see 

Come and see 

As I was rambled 

Down by the water 

I spied in sable 

The landlord's daughter 

Produced my pistol 

Then my saber 

To make no whistle 

Or thou will be murdered 

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Lord 

Lord 

She cursed, she shivered 

She cried for mercy 

"My gold and silver 

If thou will release me" 

Lord 

Lord 

Lord 

I'll take no gold miss 

I'll take no silver 

I'll take those sweet lips 

And I'll deliver 

Lord 

Lord 

I will dress your eyelids 

With dimes upon your eyes 

Laying close to water 

Green your grave will rise 

Go to sleep now little ugly 

Go to sleep now you little fool 

Forty-winking in the belfry 

You'll not feel the drowning 

You'll not feel the drowning 

Forget you once had sweethearts 

They've forgotten you 

Think you not on parents 

They've forgotten too 

Go to sleep now little ugly 

Go to sleep now you little fool 

Forty-winking in the belfry 

You'll not feel the drowning 

You'll not feel the drowning 

Go to sleep now little ugly 

Go to sleep now you little fool 

Forty-winking in the belfry 

You'll not feel the drowning 

You'll not feel the drowning 

Hear you now the captain 

Heed his sorrowed cry 

Weight upon your eyelids 

Is dimes laid on your eyes