Harbour Town Lyrics

The town of Madmen was found among thieves

Where the horn was cut off long ago

Watch the ships, the tide takes the hope

That boards the last train coming slow

And the stronghold on the hill on its own

Overlooks this dying dominion

Of this concrete on stone on stone

That has broken nature's social union

But the waves with a sword will carry the word

Of the salt settlers that rang the bells down

Yet no call of the cursed, no voices that sit in thirst

Will ever bring the ships back to the town

You taunt me with the shakes of your head because

I don't want to stand in high places to make my decree

To declare of the distant and the broken off

And you ask what is wrong with me

I said I'm sick of all the strangers

I don't know what it is they want me to see

The stormy conscious or the shipwrecked soul

And you ask again what is wrong with me

I said, my arm, it's broken in two places

But don't worry, it's the least broken part of me

The pier has crumbled and fallen into the sound

And the captain still cling and spins the helm

Even though the ship has run aground

And here and now I present to you

My forearms in a descending salute

As my arteries slip from my wrists

Searching for kind the broken the destitute and the empty

The Lost