Half Immune

Lyrics for Half Immune

She's coming up from Skibbereen Eyes of salt and hair to drown in An island I have never seen She's her world to move around in She's my teacher and this a lesson So I listen and recall The shape your chest made as you hover Clouds over water The crest of every wave a pleasure White horses to the slaughter Take me riding, it's my birthday And the mountains look like home I'm half immune, your white moon skin Half immune, your black calf eyes Half immune and half sunken I stand beneath the sign of Mary Raphael on the skyline And your gentleness sustains me In tears and in peacetime I go diving, you stand watching The curve of the summer moon Casting off the cape you're wearing On the first night that you kiss me Later in the dark, you're swearing I've never felt so pretty Spirits peeling like a new bell Your love's like coming home I'm half immune, your white moon skin Half immune, your black calf eyes Half immune and half sunken By some miracle, you're sitting In that second-floor bedroom You're singing us to sleep Fingers curled in the new womb I could have died there, so simple Six lungs around one breath As the steeple rings in Sunday We move in morning prayer Later on, you introduce me As the girl who plaits your hair Spirits dying like a death knell Kissing goodbye to our home I'm half immune, your white moon skin Half immune, your black calf eyes Half a mule and half sunken Mm, mm