Missing Islands Lyrics

Lyric discussion by inverarity 

Cover art for Missing Islands lyrics by Shearwater

Effortless gulls in the wake Silver and white on the bow As the island is broken away from the world

Bandages pulled from the eyes The violent surging of life in the bloodstream of heaven and earth falls away

Stars on the boundary line bloom and recede in the day and the airfield is under the waves-

Lyric Correction

Sort of the "end credits" of the album. A hushed and distant depiction of the nuclear annihilation of an atoll.

"bloom and recede in the day" makes me think of a solar eclipse, but maybe not.