BACK TO THE ISLAND

WV1515/2010

Gouache & ink on Steinbach paper

 

"Now the day is gone and I sit alone and think of you, girl

What can I do without you in my life?

I guess that our guessing game just had to end that way

The hardest one to lose of all the games we played

 

But the time is past for living in a dream world

Lying to myself can't make that scene

Of wondering if you love me or just making a fool of me

Well I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island

 

And watch the sun go down (and watch the sun go down)

Hear the sea roll in (listen to the sea roll in)

But I'll be thinking of you (yes and I'll be thinking of you)

And how it might have been (thinking how it might have been)

Hear the night birds cry (listen to the night birds cry)

Watch the sunset die (sit and watch the sunset die)

Well I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island

 

For all the sunny skies, it's raining in my heart

I know down in my soul I'm really gonna miss you

But it had to end this way with all the games we played

Well I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island

 

And watch the sun go down (sit and watch the sun go down)

And hear the sea roll in (listen to the sea roll in)

But I'll be thinking of you (yes and I'll be thinking of you)

And how it might have been (thinking how it might have been)

Hear the night birds cry (listen to the night birds cry)

Watch the sunset die (sit and watch the sunset die)

Well I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island

 

And watch the sun go down (sit and watch the sun go down)

Hear the sea roll in (listen to the sea roll in)

But I'll be thinking of you (yes and I'll be thinking of you)

And how it might have been (thinking how it might have been)

Hear the night birds cry (listen to the night birds cry)

Watch the sunset die (sit and watch the sunset die)

Well I hope you understand I just had to go back to the island

 

Watch the ships come in (sit and watch the sun go down)

Wonder where they've been (listen to the sea roll in)

But I'll be thinking of you, darling (yes and I'll be thinking of you)..."

 

BACK TO THE ISLAND - Leon Russell, 1975.

 

 

 

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