Lyrics
Arthur darns the frayed green awning of the Number Five ferry.
It’s the last week in September, the tide is in a hurry.
He feels the engine’s shudder, a tremble in the steel plate floor,
same sound his father knew the whole length of the war.
[Chorus]
They're gonna break the thread that holds two shores together,
and we're already ghosts here, in this chalk-cliff weather.
[Verse 2]
He winds the chain, a slow, unspooling memory of rust.
'Soon be all Tescos and tourists,' a woman said, disgusted.
He thinks of his father, knuckles white against the brine,
saying “jeszcze raz” beneath the West Cowes council sign.
[Chorus]
They're gonna break the thread that holds two shores together,
and we're already ghosts here, in this chalk-cliff weather.
[Bridge]
And the weft of this water is woven with his name,
a boy's reflection staring up, caught inside the frame.
[Outro]
...holds two shores together.
About Cat Steven
Cat Steven was raised on the Isle of Wight, splitting his weeks between two homes after his parents' divorce: a boat-builder's cottage by the sea and a gardener's house inland. He learned to play on his father's old nylon-string guitar, writing songs to map the emotional distance between his two lives. Now based in Bristol, his music untangles the threads of a life spent in-between, searching for…
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