Calypso

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 blows long as I sing into the wind

I tell of nights where I could taste the salt on his skin

Salt of the waves and of tears and while he pulled away

I kept him here for years now 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 may 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