Calypso
Interprète : Suzanne Vega
| 1. | [MI]My name is[MI7/4*3] calypso and [MI]I have lived a[MI7/4*3]lone [MI]I live on a is[MI7/4*3]land and [MI]I waken [MI7/4*3]to the dawn. A [LA]long time ag[LA13/4]o I[LA] watched him struggle [LA13/4]with the sea. [MI]I knew that he[MI7/4*3] was drowning [MI]And I brought him [MI7/4*3]into me. [LA4]Now today come morning light, [DO]He sails a[DOmaj7]way aft[FA#m7/4*2]er one last [MI]night [MI7/4*3] I [MI]let him go[MI7/4*3]. |
| 2. |
My name is Calypso. My garden overflows. Thick and wild and hidden Is the sweetness there that grows. My hair, it blows long as I sing in the wind. I tell of nights where I could taste The salt on his skin, Salt of the waves and of tears. And though he pulled away, I kept him here for years. Now I let him go. |
| 3. |
My name is Calypso. I have let him go. In the dawn he sails away To be gone for ever more. And the waves will take him in again, But he'll know their ways now. I will stand upon the shore With a clean heart and my song in the wind. The sand will sting my feet and the sky will burn. It's a lonely time ahead. I do not ask him to return. I let him go. I let him go. |