Monuments

歌詞

My friends and I were sailing down To find out what the world's about Driftwood, ships, and monuments To how the young man beat his breast And how his love is tied to death See lily fronds like lace upon The silver girl, her distant arms The words that issued from her lips A turn of phrase a parting gift Like "You've done wrong in abandoning Everyone and everything." We'll meet again someday is the longest of the lines That slip the hands of drowning men and go slowly with the tide Somewhere there's a border town I hardly ever mention now Where young girls lock themselves inside And claim they're never worth our time Because the flesh is not divine Because we're never satisfied See empty chairs in Heaven high A disembodied voice decries Says "Of all the seething mess I've made Nothing here is fit to save" So I'll call for endless rain again Could we have sailed Off into A better land Two by two?