Meridian Lyrics - Golden Archipelago - Shearwater

In the burning daze 

Of unnatural light 

I took a long drive 

Into the evening 

On the barracks road 

Past the generals' eyes 

Down to the seawall 

Where the waves stand by 

The enormous lull 

Then a roar in the sky 

And then the searchlights 

Over the airfield 

And over the ocean winging low 

I saw the first wave 

And the flares that fall 

Like fireflies on the islands 

In the boom and swell 

From the waves to the heights 

Reverberations 

Of our old lives 

Like a golden bell 

That would ring through the night 

And then the front moves 

And we raise our eyes 

In the silence of the islands