Calypso - Suzanne Vega
My name is Calypso
And I have lived alone
I live on an Island
And I waken to the dawn
A long time ago
I watched him struggle with the sea
I knew that he was doing
And I brought him in to me
Now today
Come moning's light
He sails away after one last night
I let him go
My name is Calypso
my garden overflows
Thick and wild and hidden
Is the sweetness there that grows
My hair it blows long
As I sing into the wind
I tell of nights where I could
Taste the salt of his skin
Sal t of the waves
And of tears
Though he pulled away
I kept him here for years
Now I let him go
My name is Calypso
I have let him go
In the dawn he sails away
To be gone forever More
And the waves will take him in again
But he'll know their ways now
I will stand upon the shore
With a clean heart
And my song in the wind
The sand will sting my feet
And the sky will burn
It's a lonely time ahead
I do not ask him to return
I let him go