Calypso-Suzanne Vega

[ti:Calypso] [ar:Suzanne Vega] [al:Retrospective-The Best of Suzanne Vega] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.65]Calypso - Suzanne Vega [00:21.51]My name is calypso [00:23.81]And I have lived alone [00:28.38]Live on an island [00:30.53]And I waken to the dawn [00:34.20]A long time ago [00:37.33]I watched him struggle with the sea [00:42.19]I knew that he was drowning [00:44.96]And I brought him into me [00:48.96]Now today [00:51.03]Come morning light [00:55.39]He sails away [00:57.53]After one last night [01:04.45]I let him go [01:09.79]My name is calypso [01:11.79]My garden overflows [01:16.52]Thick and wild and hidden [01:18.83]Is the sweetness there that grows [01:22.49]My hair it blows long [01:25.45]As I sing into the wind [01:30.12]I tell of nights [01:31.51]Where I could taste the salt on his skin [01:37.09]Salt of the waves [01:41.60]And of tears [01:43.04]And though he pulled away [01:45.72]I kept him here for years [01:55.40]I let him go [02:53.02]My name is calypso [02:56.65]I have let him go [02:59.41]In the dawn he sails away [03:02.70]To be gone forever more [03:06.18]And the waves will take him in again [03:09.56]But hell know their ways now [03:12.96]I will stand upon the shore [03:15.59]With a clean heart [03:17.22]And my song in the wind [03:19.29]The sand will sting my feet [03:21.59]And the sky will burn [03:25.86]It's a lonely time ahead [03:31.17]I do not ask him to return [03:36.40]I let him go [03:38.47]I let him go