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 it blows long
As I sing into the wind
My name is Calypso

And I have lived alone
I live on an island
I tell of nights

Where I could taste the salt on his skin

Salt of the waves

And of tears
And though he,pulled away
I kept him here for years

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 will 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