Calypso Lyrics

Calypso lyrics

Suzanne Vega

  

  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

  My name is Calypso

  And I have lived alone

  I live on an island

  I tell of nights

  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 he'll 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

  It's a lonely time ahead

  I do not ask him to return

  I let him go

  I let him go