Calypso lyrics

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