Islands Lyrics
Five days
Underwater
Near your island
Off the coast, I know
Five ways
You were my lover
Incantation
Of the tide in rhyme
[Verse]
Oh
All in the glow of fire, you're waiting
Oh
Has it been so long now? Ah-ah ah
Oh
I thought you knew that I'd be coming
The way you move, a foreign groove
At night, I could never
I could never hold you...
[Chorus]
Watch it rise up where you hide
Your pearls
Feel it pile up where you cast
Those stones you wear
Do they feel cold on your bones
All the years I miss your warmth
Have you missed my warmth?
On your island, oh...
[Outro]
Ooh-ooh ooh ooh, ooh-ooh ooh ooh ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh ooh ooh, ooh-ooh ooh ooh ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh ooh ooh, ooh-ooh ooh ooh ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh ooh ooh, ooh-ooh ooh ooh ooh-ooh...
About
This song makes you feel loss, a loss of a love that you’ve never had yourself, one that was felt by one of the lyricists, and one that makes you feel the longing for a youth that you never experienced, one of peace and of a feeling of genuine love. If you never felt it, you wish that you had, and if you have, you long for it back.
The song uses islands as a metaphor for some sort of stability that the lyricist felt in this love, stability of love that they felt. They long for the stability of being in love with this person that they felt. All the while they speak about the way that they never really felt this stability, later in the song saying that “I could never hold you…”, suggesting that they never actually got to experience the love that they longed for.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
“Islands” was initially a really fast chaotic song.. after running it through a couple times we decided to try a completely different take on it and slow it down. its probably the track i can listen to the most from the first record without going crazy.
– Payam, on their Reddit AMA
- 1.Apartment
- 2.My Body
- 3.I Got
- 4.Cough Syrup
- 5.God Made Man
- 6.12 Fingers
- 7.Strings
- 8.Your Side
- 9.Garands
- 10.St. Walker
- 11.Islands
- 12.Guns Out