Calypso - Suzanne Vega

My name is Calypso and I have lived alone

I live on an island and I waken to the dawn

A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea

I knew that he was drowning and I brought him into me

Now today come morning light

He sails away after one last night

I let him go

My name is Calypso

My garden overflows

Thick and wild and hidden is the sweetness there that grows

My hair blows long as I sing into the wind

I tell of nights where I could taste the salt on his skin

Salt of the waves and of tears

And while he pulled away

I kept him here for years

Now I let him go

My name is Calypso

I have let him go

In the dawn he sails away to be gone forever 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 may 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