Widow`s Walk Lyrics

Widow`s Walk lyrics

Consider me a widow, boys

 and I will tell you why.

 It's not the man, but it's the marriage

 that was drowned.

 

 So I walk the walk

 and wait with watchful eye out to the sky,

 Looking for a kind of vessel

 I have never found.

 

 Though I saw it splinter

 I keep looking out to sea,

 Like a dog with little sense,

 I keep returning,

 

 To the very area where 

 I did see the thing go down

 as if there's something at the site 

 I should be learning.

 

 That line is the horizon.

 We watch the wind and set the sail,

 but save ourselves when all omens

 point to fail.

 

 If I tell the truth

 then I will have to tell you this

 Though I grieve (and I believe

 i feel it truly)

 

 But I knew that ship was empty 

 by the time it hit the rocks,

 we could not hold on

 when fate became unruly.

 

 So consider me a widow, boys, 

 and I have told you why.

 Does the weather say 

 a better day is nearing?

 

 I'll set my house in order now

 and wait upon the Will

 It's clear that I need 

 better skill in steering...

 

 That line is the horizon.

 We watch the wind and set the sail,

 But save ourselves when all omens

 point to fail.