Hugo Grayling - God's Own Island Lyrics

Deep in a forest of jade there's a miserable pool
The water tastes just like the names that they called you in school
You see your reflection and panic, run back to the shore
You've never accepted an honest assessment before

The blue of the trees in the morning filled you with fright
The din of the stars kept you up 'til you noticed their light
The crickets were not like the ones that you hear in the night

God's own island
God's own island
God's own island

Back in the city we fought over each scrap of light
We slept with each others' emergencies, petty and trite
But deep in the valves of our hearts we developed a beast
And all it could eat was our hate, so its power increased

I worked for ten years in a plant, manufactured advice
That you'd take in the form of pill and on dismal days, twice
But i'm glad that we're here where addictions are helpful and nice

On God's own island

I'm not really sure what a poet would make of this place
And back where I come from most poets expire in the chase
I don't really know if the people I work with would care
To know if they're ugly or wrong or in need of repair

But every third Sunday, a sound resonates from the woods
A sound never heard in the city of markets and goods
It doesn't seem pressured in making itself understood

On God's own island
God's own island