Track Insight / Lyrics
He walks where the ferns grow tall
Near the black volcanic wall
Sowing seeds in salty sand
Tending to a broken land
The soil is rich and dark as ink
He watches as the shoreline sink
The roots will hold the shifting clay
Until the breaking of the day
Oh, the islands call his name
Wild and fierce and never tame
Steel and bone and ancient green
The strangest world he's ever seen
He finds a bloom of rare design
Where the jungle creepers twine
Call it *Araucaria* gold
A story that the fossils told
The soil is rich and dark as ink
He watches as the shoreline sink
The roots will hold the shifting clay
Until the breaking of the day
Oh, the islands call his name
Wild and fierce and never tame
Steel and bone and ancient green
The strangest world he's ever seen
He talks to the heavy vine
While the silver planets align
Patience is the only key
To set the hidden garden free
Bowed cello weeps for the lost
Counting up the heavy cost
A metal spark inside the wrist
Lost within a morning mist
Oh, the islands call his name
Wild and fierce and never tame
Steel and bone and ancient green
The strangest world he's ever seen
He plants a seed in rocky ground
Where the heavy beasts abound
Watering the thirsty root
Waiting for the summer fruit
Oh, the islands call his name
Wild and fierce and never tame
Steel and bone and ancient green
The strangest world he's ever seen
Dig the hole, plant the seed
Give the wild everything it needs
The Obsidian Coast.
