My name is Calypso
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And I have lived alone
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I live on an island
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And I waken to the dawn
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A long time ago
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I watched him struggle with the sea
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I knew that he was drowning
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And I brought him into me
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Now today
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Come morning light
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He sails away
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After one last night
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I let him go.
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My name is Calypso
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My garden overflows
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Thick and wild and hidden
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Is the sweetness there that grows
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My hair it blows long
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As I sing into the wind
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My name is Calypso
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And I have lived alone
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I live on an island
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I tell of nights
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Where I could taste the salt on his skin
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Salt of the waves
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And of tears
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And though he,pulled away
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I kept him here for years
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I let him go
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My name is Calypso
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I have let him go
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In the dawn he sails away
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To be gone forever more
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And the waves will take him in again
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But he'll know their ways now
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I will stand upon the shore
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With a clean heart
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And my song in the wind
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The sand will sting my feet
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And the sky will burn
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It's a lonely time ahead
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I do not ask him to return
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I let him go
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I let him go
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Calypso
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| Suzanne Vega |
