Dead Man’s Island
Will Oldham
[Verse 1]
I heard the ghost
Heard the ghost moaning
Like the wind
That howls in the glowing
I heard them groaning
Groaning over
Dead man's island
[Verse 2]
And where is my leg
I'm a dead man howling
Where is my arm
Deep in the clay
Bleached red in the dirt
And washed out to sea
Washed out to sea
[Verse 3]
Ah the waves came again
And claimed me as their own
And I disappeared back to the unknown
Rather would those meet
On their way to ???
There I must stay
[Interlude]
[Verse 4]
So where is my trial
The tall grass whispers
The meadow sucks the marrow
From the rotting land
Brutal buried; buried treasures
Crushed coffins and flesh
Crushed coffins and flesh
Crushed coffins and flesh
On dead man's isle