In the late hours of a rendezvous Chill against tide that carries me through you Got a job in a city, got some lead-free in my tank Now I must goodbye, I'm bound for the mainland
Island in the city, cut by a sea moving on an ocean, groundswell of humanity
Now the sun breaks through rain as I climb Shiel On the trail of those old cattlemen who drove their south again And in the eyes of those five, five sisters of a wink of seduction from the mainland
Island in the city, cut by a sea People on an ocean, groundswell of humanity Storm-lashed on the high-rise, their words are to the wind Blown silent laughter, falling on ears of tin
Take my heart and take my Take by stealth or take by Set my brain to I can see the glow of the lights I'm fresh the out-world Singin' the blues Was in mainland
There was a girl where I came Seems like a long time, long time by Wears the west in her hair She calls the hill Yeah, she calls in my blues Up in mainland
It's the blues
There's a road that winds to heaven's door Where a fat ferry floats on muted diesel And there's a light on the hillside and there's a flame in her But how cold the lights on the mainland
Island in the city, cut by a sea People on an ocean, groundswell of humanity Storm-lashed on the high-rise, their words are spray to the Blown like silent and falling on ears of tin In my mainland