From the recording See the Lights LP1
The island represents the beginning of a relationship, and the summer a positive time. Things have gone wrong in the meantime. So it is time to go back to where it all started and drift away - hopefully together, but if not, alone.
CREDITS:
Steve Lewis - music, lyrics, vocals, cellos, guitars, basses, drum programming. Home studio.
Michael Krebs - mixing, mastering. UNSAS®️ Studio Potsdam. https://www.christoph-nichelmann.de
Lyrics
You said its over and I don’t know how to make you change your mind
Every day you’re one step further away…every time we talk you’ve got nothing to say.
Your cold indifference cuts me like a knife. Had enough of this endless strife
Got to get away.
I’ll go back to the island where it all began and live like a castaway
Forget about yesterday. Warm sun on my pale face.
Helps me forget the last embrace. If only for a day
Don’t want the summer to end.
Can no longer pretend that its alright and you’re waiting for me
As the clouds build on the horizon. Tide is turning time to go.
New reality - leave the world of ice and snow
Let the waves carry me far out to sea
Tried so many times. Always turned out so wrong.
Thought leaving could free me. When we don’t get along.
You drifted further away, saying, “Time and space from you works for me.”
I can’t take any more. Time to cast out to sea
Let the waves carry me. Let them take me where they want to go
Float away nice and slow
Come and join me at the same time – throw me a life-line
We’ll drift together to a distant shore. Can’t ask for more
Don’t want the summer to end.
Can no longer pretend that it’s alright and you’re waiting for me
As the clouds build on the horizon. Tide is turning, time to go.
New reality. Leave the world of ice and snow
Let the waves carry me far out to sea
Far out to sea. Far out to sea.