Reculver

I submarine

Run aground

Obscure from the modern crown

Hands turn to shovel

Dirt under nails

Digging through the struggle

Swearing

"Fate, don't ever fail me 'gain"

But again

Gone to earth

Amen

So I cross over to the island to find

All the words I had lay down to die

And I laid down

Reculver

Let's put the ghost to rest

Today's train waits for none, but I'm not well

And you ain't dressed for the cold light of the out there

Between sky and soil

With a mouth so wide it will swallow you whole

How many years can you disappear for

Before they call off the patrol?

Too long we've lived under scaffolding

Our ruins seamark for shipwrecking

No child, no husband

Prospects oblique

Bankrupt and borderline

Orphaned and obsolete

Oh, enough of my accomplishments

Here's to the bridges burnt

Never to mend

Come on, lay down

Reculver

Let's put the ghost to rest

Today's train waits for none, but you're not well

And I ain't dressed for the cold light of the out there

Between sky and soil

With a mouth so wide it will swallow you whole

How many years can you disappear for?

I no longer want to know

Hey!

Let me go

Don't call me to the 'knowes

And if the wind doesn't wake me out here at gale force

Then it's true long ago that my boat lost course

And if I've counted the last of the countless stones

Give the devil my old address

Tell him

“Make yourself at home”