Calypso - Suzanne Vega 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
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 hell 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
Its a lonely time ahead
I do not ask him to return I let him go I let him go
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