Right Before the Last Waves Took Vestris
by Greg Freeman
From the album: I Looked Out
Track 2 of 12 on I Looked Out (2022).
Duration: 2:42
Lyrics for Right Before the Last Waves Took Vestris
It's not the dam Built behind your eyelids Despite the constantly turning cheek In the many stabbing swords of your patience I saw you spring a leak Right before the last wave took Vestris Not a sound from the deck was heard It's not the fault of the man who built it When the captains overboard In the predawn throes of Her sinking- In the strange blue light of your eyes Pitched a boat off the coast of Virginia In some dim and loveless tide And you swooned to the bottom To the seaweed and bone And there you found me waiting for you All awreck upon the stone