Take me to the bay in darkness Through this month of nights in one They burned oil in the starless Pitch of night, awaiting And you're born Dark gave way to dawn They said you were a pearl Found there on the earth As you grew to a girl And she faded from your life And the current towed You by its side And the water sowed A vision in your mind Go to the bend Know where it ends She's an islander and she longs to be To be in the world she used to be When she was a girl and she left to see To see this world that we all see The hares ran in the wood, No faster than your mind Could carry you away To the world you longed to find And you chose to hide In the mountain's edge ‘Til it burned A vision in your head Go to descend Know where it ends She's an islander and she longs to be To be in the world she used to be When she was a girl and she left to see To see this world that we all see And they rose Until we heard them roar And they burned Until they could burn no more