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"
What?

Reculver