You would not recognise me now
After all those years on the island
Though my heart is hot with love
My skin turned into dry parchment
My body feels like a block of lime
A curious map of scars and creases
No one could read and make sense of me
Robin - a half-baked host of the reef
chorus:
I'm alive - a one-man island
Stranded alone on the margins of life
Whatever happens don't try to save me
I have forsaken the meaning of time
Exposed to the blazing sun of the reef
I found consolation in awkward prayers
With memory consumed by salt and heat
I could not picture a human Jesus
One day I spotted an advancing sail
But went to great lengths not to be seen
I thought the world was peopled by fools
With souls diseased with imperial greed
chorus:
I'm alive - a one-man island
Stranded alone on the margins of life
Whatever happens don't try to save me
I have forsaken the meaning of time
I'm alive, a single island
Charmed by the speechless songs of the sea
I'd rather die in my bedding of sand
The starry heavens shine only for me