An Insular Life Lyrics - Golden Archipelago - Shearwater

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 assured 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