"The Island: Come And See / The Landlord's Daughter / You'll Not Feel The Drowning" lyrics - THE DECEMBERISTS

[The Island]
There's an island hidden in the sound
Lapping currents lay your boat to ground
Affix your barb and bayonet
The curlews carve their Arabesques
And sorrow fills the silence all around
You come and see

There's a harbor lost within the reeds
A jetty caught in over-hanging trees
Among the bones of cormorants
No boot-mark here nor fingerprints
The rivers roll down to a soundless sea

[Come and see]

[Chorus:]
You come and see
Come and see-e-e
The tides will come and go
Witnessed by no waking eye
Who rose like the wind
Though we know for sure amidst this fading light
We'll not go home again

[Post Chorus:]
Come and see-e-e-e
Come and see-e-e-e-e-e

In the lowlands, nestled in the heat
A brier cradle rocks its babe to sleep
Its contents watched by Sycorax
And patagon in paralax
A foretold rumbling sounds below the deep

[Chorus:]
You come and see
Come and see-e-e
The tides will come and go witnessed by no waking eye
Who rose like the wind
Though we know for sure amidst this fading light
We'll not go home again

[Post Chorus:]
Come and see-e-e-e
Come and see-e-e-e-e-e

[The Landlord's Daughter]
As I was rambled
Down by the water
I spied in sable
The landlord's daughter

Produced my pistol
Then my saber
To make no whistle
Or thou will be murdered

La-ord
La-ord

She cursed, she shivered
She cried for mercy:
"My gold and silver
If thou will release me"

La-ord
La-ord
La-ord

I'll take no gold, miss
I'll take no silver
I'll take those sweet lips
And I'll deliver

La-ord
La-ord

[You'll Not Feel the Drowning]
I will dress your eyelids
With dimes upon your eyes
Laying close to water
Green your grave will rise

Go to sleep now little ugly
Go to sleep now you little fool
Forty-winking in the belfry
You'll not feel the drowning
You'll not feel the drowning

Forget you once had sweethearts
They've forgotten you
Think you not on parents
They've forgotten too

Go to sleep now little ugly
Go to sleep now you little fool
Forty-winking in the belfry
You'll not feel the drowning
You'll not feel the drowning

Go to sleep now little ugly
Go to sleep now you little fool
Forty-winking in the belfry
You'll not feel the drowning
You'll not feel the drowning

Hear you now the captain
Heed his sorrowed cry
Weight upon your eyelids
Is dimes laid on your eyes