Reculver

I submarine Run aground Obscure from the modern crown Hands turn to shovel Dirt under nails Digging through the struggle Swearing "Fate, don't ever fail me 'gain" But again Gone to earth Amen So I cross over to the island to find All the words I had lay down to die And I laid down Reculver Let's put the ghost to rest Today's train waits for none, but I'm not well And you ain't dressed for the cold light of the out there Between sky and soil With a mouth so wide it will swallow you whole How many years can you disappear for Before they call off the patrol? Too long we've lived under scaffolding Our ruins seamark for shipwrecking No child, no husband Prospects oblique Bankrupt and borderline Orphaned and obsolete Oh, enough of my accomplishments Here's to the bridges burnt Never to mend Come on, lay down Reculver Let's put the ghost to rest Today's train waits for none, but you're not well And I ain't dressed for the cold light of the out there Between sky and soil With a mouth so wide it will swallow you whole How many years can you disappear for? I no longer want to know Hey! Let me go Don't call me to the 'knowes And if the wind doesn't wake me out here at gale force Then it's true long ago that my boat lost course And if I've counted the last of the countless stones Give the devil my old address Tell him, "Make yourself at home" What? Reculver