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Dear Old Greenland
Andrew Bird
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On the way to Greenland I shall find
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All the disparate fragments of my mind
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I shall return a different man
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And darling do
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And darling do
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All that I can
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All that I can
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On the way to Greenland I shall find
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No mundane distractions of any kind
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If beneath the ice fields there's a room
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It's there I'll find my peace a lovely tomb
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Friends, Greenland is a place where souls go to dry out
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It is a vast and terrifying place of ice fields and tundra
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Bereft of fire and in the horror of its imposing irrelevance
There is a peace
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The peace of pain The peace of nothing Well friends, I'm going there
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Fear is lying dying in the sands
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And it's breathing from the gills of my Greenland oh oh