The Mystery Of The Flannan Isle Lighthouse - Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks

Flannan Isle lies in the South by the Point of Kedgeree

Forty-seven miles from land in the roughest part of the sea

On the finest day the sea is black

They say no one has ever come back from there

They say the wicked spirits haunt the lighthouse in the night

Fierce ghosts of many men who tried to stop the warning light

Waves are hurled against the ugly rocks

Spray is changed at once to a wall of ice

Bird who wants to rest its tired wings

Lands, and it is turned to a of stone

The island’s rocks have many caves that smell of dying flesh

They lure the strangers to their maze of never ending length

The empty cave is filled with sound

in the ground below

Each month a boat is sucked to perish by the rocky isle

Each time the moon is full the currents are directed there

Boats that sail too near to Flannan Isle

Feel the weather change and they turn away

If they dare to look behind them, still

Screams of disappointment fill the air