I had a little boat (I called it Life) Once I went out And never came back. All of a sudden There was a big wind And waves like mountains Many things raced through my mind And in the lonely chanting of the sea I heard the echoes of eternity And in the fantasy of cloud and sky I saw the One who lives While all things die And I was swallowed by the sea And lost in the deep And washed up on the shore.
When I awakened The storm was over And the sea was calm It was strange and wonderful Like seeing the world And seeing through the world.
[ on the liner notes, but not on the recording: Like moving among the objects of the world As though there were no objects to move among As though there was no world As though there was no mover ]
And when I told the people in the village That I went out and never came back They all laughed and called me The Wanderer And I laughed with them They didn’t know They were the wanderers And so I found my way And found my home on EDEN’S ISLAND
[ on the liner notes, but not on the recording: (Many thing to many people) Come and live the enchanted life Where time becomes eternity And you will become a beachcomber, a dreamer and dream untellable dreams And wander no more... On EDEN’S ISLAND ]
Where the wind has been telling the truth Forever and ever and ever