Lyrics

Summertime at Grand Isle
She was reborn the child
Who wandered aimlessly
Meadows in Kentucky
The breeze upon her face
The blades beyond her waist
The bluegrass how it swayed
As though it were an ocean wave

Some evenings she cries and longs for a rising tide
To wash away all her regret
As her tears multiply the sea sings a lullaby
Until the sun rises again

August the twenty eighth
She learned to swim beneath
Mystic, effulgent sky
A million stars her guide
The whisper of the sea
A seductive entreaty
The wavelets how they curled
Like serpents coiling her soul

The water is cold and terror begins to grow
Visited by visions of death
But like Aphrodite she emerges from the sea
And when the sun rises again
Reborn
She awakens a subject of desire

She’d give everything else but would not give herself
Some things just are beyond compromise
Not a mother-woman, she’ll no longer consent
To be nothing but mother and wife
Abyssal solitude, no more husband or brood
To clip her wings and tie her down with no will of her own
Unenthralled, in the eye of the storm
She remembered what the sea whispered
“Freedom lies beyond the waves”