The Lake Isle Of Innisfree Lyrics

Lyric discussion by vchamberlain 

Cover art for The Lake Isle Of Innisfree lyrics by Waterboys, The

This is The Waterboys' version of the William Butler Yeats poem. The original poem goes like this:

I will arise & go now, & go to Innisfree, & a small cabin build there, of clay & wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, & live alone in the bee-loud glade.

& I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, & noon a purple glow, & evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise & go now, for always night & day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.