Karine Polwart - Cover your eyes lyrics

I was Farrah Fawcett, you were Steve McQueen And we rode your silver Grifter Half the way from Aberdeen And the waves fall How they fall I kept lookout in the marram gra** U-boats on the skyline Commandos at the pa** And the waves fall How they fall The tide still ebbs and flows Where the Ythan meets the ocean And not even God himself Ould can stop the northerlies from blowing You can tear these dunes asunder Pound this wonder into dust With your cruel hands and crooked hearts Laden with lust and expensive lies But the haar will stumble in to cover your eyes The haar will stumble in You said "Michael blew the clouds away" And sure a scarlet shard of sunset scores the granite grey And the waves fall How they fall And the tide still ebbs and flows ...