Heather Nova - Island Lyrics

I'm speechless! I've been listening to music all day, checking out various stuff... This is the best thing I've come across for a long time, mesmerizing, haunting, powerful... I never knew of Heather, seems I must do some homework

Yeah, there are parts of me he'll never know
My wild horses and my river beds
And in my throat, voices he'll never hear
He pulls at me like a cherry tree
And I can still move but I don't speak about it
Pretend I'm crazy, pretend I'm dead
He's too scared to hit me now
He'll bring flowers instead
I need an island
Somewhere to sink a stone
I need an island
Somewhere to bury you
Somewhere to go
And the dogwoods shimmer in the October sun
"Oh sweet thing, " he sings to me,
"You're the only one."
I need an island
Somewhere to sink a stone
I need an island
Somewhere to bury you
Somewhere
I need an island
Somewhere to sink a stone
I need an island
Somewhere to bury you
Somewhere to go
And I don't know why I can't tell my sister
He spat in my face again
And I don't want to die here
You know that dream when your feet won't move
You want to come but your body won't let you
He steals it from me
He steals it from me
It shines like sweat
Like jewels
Like something that has died too soon
He fucks with the beauty
A kiss, a kick, a kiss, a kick
A kiss kiss kick kick kick
He steals it from me
It's out of my hands again
I need an island
Somewhere to sink a stone
I need an island
Somewhere to bury you
Somewhere
I need an island
Somewhere to sink a stone
I need an island
Somewhere to bury you
Somewhere to go
To go
I need an island
I need an island
I need an island
Somewhere to sink a stone
I need an island
Somewhere to bury you
Somewhere to go
I need an island
Somewhere to sink a stone
I need an island
Somewhere to bury you
Somewhere
I need an island
Somewhere to sink a stone
I need an island
Somewhere to bury you

I do not know why, but she always touches me with her voice ... and with her looks it is almost too much :)!

Jolie et plein d'émotions!!!

my ex used to play this a lot. trying to burry me i guess, 20 years later still no luck with that. i decided it was best to go our own ways and we'll see eachother in 10 years. this was the last song she played and i allways remembered it. we lost eachother and on the exact day 10 yrs later we bumbed into eachother and tried again. didnt work. exact 10 yrs from that we bumbed into eachother again. tried not making same mistakes again. we did. guess love has mysterious ways. we still love eachother but we can't be together for some reason. so i guess i still try to stay on my island while she is on hers. some day i hope we can just be.

The intro sounds like "The 5th of July" on Owl City's new album. You think this inspired him to do that?

This song just explains me

Hauntingly beautiful song...

One of my favorite songs ever. Not well-known, but another reason why it's one of my favorites

Such a haunting song, probably my favorite of Heather's.

What the eye behind her? Illuminati?! So she too?! :-(

maybe an oyster

are you brainwashed?

this album is simply amazing

Yes it is. This album touched my soul since I first heard it in 1995.

After having heard her voice, I know how Odysseus must have felt hearing the siren's sing.

Michael Kleinbub Good call. I've been saying that for years! That intro is how I imagine the sirens sounded.

Meg Myers (Heart Heart Head) brought me here, and they have similar voices/style. Thanks Meg, gonna jam all Heather’s songs now

OoooOoOooOoOOooOoOo
OOoOoHhHhHhhHhhhhHhh

Música delicada som misterioso

Had the pleasure to meet her for an interview back in 1999. Funny thing is i was neither the interviewer nor the cameraman. In all honesty i had no function at all at that meeting. But as i knew the producer i was allowed to go anyway. Shook her hands, took some pics and then listened to what she had to say. Beautiful Woman with a siren-like voice and an overwhelming meeting i still remember very well to this day.

it is a brilliant dreamsong

I finally met her in The Hague a few years ago. A wonderful woman. I love her text, voice. Passion for singing. So Puur!!

One of my all time favorites!!!!

A very powerful song. An excellent artist. Everyone deserves respect and dignity and if you are in a relationship that is damaging you, you have the right to leave.

I wish more people knew about her. Her voice is incredible! I've been listening to her since I was a teenager. <3

She fills venues in Europe. Of the four of her shows I saw on her US tour I don't think any of the shows had more a couple hundred in the audience. While I would have liked to see her draw bigger audiences, having that intimate experience was really nice.

I remember finding her in the 90's. Still the stuff. Love this girl

Heather Nova, please marry me...

Never knew until tonight just like me heather nova was in a abusive realtionship, this song was one of her stories. Glad she escaped just like I did

She was 16 yrs old when she started writing this album.. or, had already recorded it.
I'm awesome!

@***** The message wasn't meant for you. Maybe I simply prevented a Nuclear attack (by Code) via this reply, Fuckhead!
How are you to know?
Suck it, bitch.
I'm still awesome!
lol

...love her voice, (love the duet by 'sharon den adel' also 2gether with 'anneke van giersbergen'). -- if anyone should be added with those 2, i'd go for heather...
ah well, w/e beautiful voice should stop wasting my time on commenting and rather enjoy the song.

Beautiful and haunting

I could talk to women for hours and never understand a phukin word they had said. But when I listen to their music they make a whole hell of allot more sense to me.

I love this Song!

Thank you so much for posting this -- the highest-res version here, far as I can see. I almost didn't want to "like" it, for fear of drawing the wrong kind of attention...

But how else could I say a proper thank-you?