An Island Surrounded by Land Lyrics

You're an outport fishing village where the fish no longer swim

Where the ferries don't remember how to navigate the shoals

So there's been no mail and no supplies since 1983

You're an island surrounded by land

Held in place

Surrounded by land

I'm a prairie railway station where the tracks are overgrown

Where a canopy of weeds obscures the roads in or out

And the wind that barrels from the north is the only noise I hear

I'm an island surrounded by land

By a wall of world

Surrounded by land

Ah but wait a minute

Wait a million years

Let tectonic movements tear the world apart

Ride out the tremors

Ride out the violence

Inch a little closer

Oh we'll inch a little closer

Break free from our mooring

And inch a little closer

And we'll try

We'll try to collide

We'll try, we'll try, we'll try to collide

Oh we'll try, we'll try to collide

Oh we'll try, we'll try to collide