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Calypso - Lyrics by Suzanne Vega


Lyrics
My name is Calypso

And I have lived alone
I live on an island
And I waken to the dawn
A long time ago
I watched him struggle with the sea
I knew that he was drowning

And I brought him into me

Now today

Come morning light

He sails away

After one last night
I let him go.


My name is Calypso

My garden overflows

Thick and wild and hidden

Is the sweetness there that grows

My hair it blows long

As I sing into the wind

My name is Calypso

And I have lived alone
I live on an island
I tell of nights

Where I could taste the salt on his skin


Salt of the waves

And of tears

And though he,pulled away
I kept him here for years
I let him go


My name is Calypso
I have let him go

In the dawn he sails away

To be gone forever more

And the waves will take him in again

But he'll know their ways now
I will stand upon the shore

With a clean heart


And my song in the wind

The sand will sting my feet

And the sky will burn

It's a lonely time ahead
I do not ask him to return
I let him go
I let him go

Book: Reflection on the Important Things