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The Talisman




[Gers / Harris]


When I stand and look about the port

And contemplate my life,

Will I ever see my countrymen again?


As the captain calls us on the deck

I take my things and walk to the harbourside,

I glance back one last time


Fleeing our nation,

Our problems we leave behind

Ships by the tenfold

Sail out on the tide

We are pleased to be out and

Embracing the open sea

Free from our troubles

And more free from thee


Inheritors unfulfilled reason

Behind us.

We flee from what is not what

Is will be.

We flee the earth and face our

Harsh reality.

Will death be low mist that

Hangs on the sea?


We run from the evil tongues,

Rash judgements, selfish men

Never to be seen on these shores again.


As we sail into oceansize

And lose sight of all land

A face of contentment

Around in the air

We're off now to seek all our fortunes

To the land of our dreams


Riding the waves and the storm

Is upon us.

The winds lash the sails but

The ropes keep them tight


Off in the distance a dark cloud approaching

None could imagine what there was to come


No, there's no one going back

No, there's not a second chance

As we strap onto the side

We pray to God that we won't die


As we ride the rough seas,

As we soak from the ocean waves,

I just hope for all our lives

And pray that I survive


Four ships are lost in the

Stormy conditions

The spirits of the sunken crews,

Their phantoms follow us


Spirits, sails, they drive us on

Through the all consuming waves

Cold mortality, no weapon

Against these ever raging seas


Four leagues and ten and we

Hit storms again

We just can't get away from

The eye of the storm


The birds outsoar the raging storm

But we cannot escape it

Abandoned earth that we now crave

Is many leagues from safe


Holding on for our dear lives

And we're praying once again

rotten luck or just jonahed?

The talisman is in my hand


Limbs fatigues, trembling with cold

Blinded from the sea spray salt

Clasping anything we can hold

Heaven's rain upon us falls


Twenty days without a meal

And ten without fresh water still

Those that didn't die in storms

The scurvy rest did slaughter


Westwards the tide

westwards we sail on

Westwards the tide

Sail by the talisman


We approach the other side

Of the ocean with the tide

In our favour just for once

Welcome greeting our new land

The elation in our hearts

The excitement in our veins

As we sail towards the coastline

Of our golden promised land


Weary limbs fatigued away

I have no life left in me

No more strength and nothing

Left to give

Must find the will to live


Never thought that we could make it

Truly sight of shores divine

the sickness I am dying from

Never wanted it to end this way


Westwards the tide

Westwards we sail on

westwards the tide

Sail by the talisman