"Shaky Isles" lyrics

It's not very far
A mere stone's throw away
From the quay in the city
You walk round by the wall they built in the Depression
A seawall of stone
The tide is rolling in
Over a small rock I used to fish on
With the old man
I get a warm feeling looking across the bay
Sun's going down

I'm dressed in black, sweating in my shoes
It's a hot humid grey day, I've got fear
Tears welling in my eyes
It comes as no surprise to me now
Yeah, I think about the lies we told
Went down to the fishing nylon in the bay
I laugh about it now

Standing on a shaky island
Standing on a shaky island
It's shaking me down to my bones
Down where I belong
To where I'm free, I guess, yes
Feels like a motherland, a fatherland
Got a father buried on the hill
With a better view than I
I know I'm standing on shaky isles

I have my head down
I've seen so much of the ground lately
I look up, it's all a glaze
And when your heart is aching this bad, baby
I guess that's what it feels like to belong anyway

(Standing on a shaky island
Standing on a shaky island)

Don't it feel like a motherland, a fatherland
Take it any way you can
Standing on this shaky island

I have my head down
I've seen so much of the ground lately
I look up, it's all a glaze
And when your heart is aching this bad, baby
I guess that's what it feels like to belong anyway

Standing on a shaky island
Standing on a shaky island
It's shaking me down to my bones
Down where I belong
To where I'm free, I guess, yes
I take it with me
A motherland, a fatherland
Got a father buried on the hill
With the best view in town
I'm standing on shaky isles

Standing on shaky isles
With the best view in town
Don't it feel like a motherland, a fatherland
Take it any way you can
The best view in town
Standing on these shaky isles

Seen so much of the ground
Seen so much of the ground
It feels like, looks like --
It feel like --
I belong