This Island Life - Violent Femmes

This tea’s too strong for me

As I await your company

I had too much sun today

Ocean waters wash away

Nothing but the present

Presenting its presence

This island life

Separate my right from my wrong

No I am not pagan

But my heart has been forsaken

And the hand of God was on my mind

It took some time from time to time

Now in the course I know

Time itself will go when

This island life

Separates my right from my wrong

You forget your shoes and I

I have sent a message but I

There’s so many stars in the sky

It’s the truths that will not lie

There’s a young wild native maiden

Running mad and barefoot to the sea until

This island life