The Tide Falls Away

I walked a spiraling village one night Drawn by the word of a bell or a light Out on the flats saw it rose to a spire It all becomes clear as the tide falls away Parent and child and an ocean between One is not heard and the other not seen Too many bottles but each had a message inside It all becomes clear as the tide falls away It all becomes clear as the tide falls away Lucky we are when the startss leave us singing A hymn or a dirge when the surge of the ocean Is gone, is gone And the old woman just stares at her hands So many heroes have crumbled to sand All those cathedrals were merely by men It all becomes clear as the tide falls away It all becomes clear as the tide falls away All falls away