Island In The Rain Lyrics - Singles - The Men They Couldt Hang

I'll take a journey through the town to dock gate one 

And there I'll take a ferry boat 

That ferry sails across the Solent waters deep 

To an island like a castle with a moat 

I'll leave the empty shores of Hythe and Netley Bay 

The smoke of Fawley soon will fade 

And I'll be bound where something undecided waits 

A memory or a useless masquerade 

Back to the island in the rain 

Before the season or the weather's change 

I'm searching for the ghosts that haunt this island view 

One looks like me one has the face of you 

I'll go to bars we used to go to every day 

To Tennyson's statue carved in stone 

It's stayed the same throughout the passing of the years 

But we were made of faithless flesh and bone 

This time of year it rains on every empty beach 

This time of year the summer souvenirs are gone 

No slot machines, candy floss or novelties 

Like love affairs picked up and lost along the prom 

There's only lovers walking in the rain 

The way we did before another sea-son came 

Ghosts, shadows, spirits of a dream 

Or just players in a scene?