Robin's Cruise

You would not recognise me now

After all those years on the island

Though my heart is hot with love

My skin turned into dry parchment

My body feels like a block of lime

A curious map of scars and creases

No one could read and make sense of me

Robin - a half-baked host of the reef

chorus:

I'm alive - a one-man island

Stranded alone on the margins of life

Whatever happens don't try to save me

I have forsaken the meaning of time

Exposed to the blazing sun of the reef

I found consolation in awkward prayers

With memory consumed by salt and heat

I could not picture a human Jesus

One day I spotted an advancing sail

But went to great lengths not to be seen

I thought the world was peopled by fools

With souls diseased with imperial greed

chorus:

I'm alive - a one-man island

Stranded alone on the margins of life

Whatever happens don't try to save me

I have forsaken the meaning of time

I'm alive, a single island

Charmed by the speechless songs of the sea

I'd rather die in my bedding of sand

The starry heavens shine only for me