Black Eyes Lyrics - Golden Archipelago - Shearwater

Come down from the lion's back 

Call down to the endless sleepers 

Give life to the dimming days 

That run in an endless stream now 

In the black of the eye 

In the heat of the act 

Is a crack in the ice 

Come down from the iron wheel 

Come back from the endless labor 

Look down on the rolling waves 

That strike on the crumbling reef now 

Is what the body becomes 

In the bellow aloud 

In the crack of the drum 

But if the body dies 

What is left of the heart 

Burns white 

No light on the western shore 

No sign of the ships at anchor 

No sound but the roaring winds 

No warmth but the life behind the eye 

And what the body allows 

Is a flash in the heart 

Until the memory dies 

And a forever life 

Is an infinite lie 

Hung wide