For too long
I have been the unwilling passenger
drifting steadily from shore
looking back, looking back
not yet ready to leave it all

For too long
I have enjoyed the most sublime horizon
it is enough to ruin a man
it has been enough to keep me forever looking
long after the setting sun
searching for what has surely gone
for what can surely never come.

For too long
I have loved you
your delta river hips and harbour mouth
I have sung for you
I have belonged to you
even as I put you in the ground

But hey listen:
I am still not ready to leave the shore
so turn this fucking ship around