Lyrics
[Verse]
I'm writing this in pencil on my knee with my other hand to stop me yawning [yawn]
Upon a primitive, unsheltered dock in the small hours of wednesday morning
The summer day is dawning,
[Chorus]
In seydisfjordur every school boy knows
that daylight in the summer
never goes
[verse]
Now for the spirit of the people, here
I know I'm treading on dangerous ground
I know they're many changes in the air
But know my data too slight to be sound
I know I'm inviting the renowned
[Chorus]
Retort of all who love the status quo
Youc an't change human nature, don't you know?
[verse]
we've still, it's true, the same shape and appearance,
We haven't changed the way that kissing's done.
The average man still hates all interference,
is just as proud still of his new-born son
still, like a hen, he likes his private run,
[chorus]
scratches for self-esteem, and slyly pecks,
a good deal in the neighborhood of sex
[verse]
So if ostensibly I write to you
to chat about your poetry or mine
there're many other reasons though it's true
that i have at the age of twenty-nine
just red don juan and I found it fine
[chorus]
I red it on the boat to reykjavik
except when eating or asleep or sick
[verse]
The thought of writing came to me today
I like to give these facts of time and space
The bus was in the desert on its way
From mothrudalur to some other place
the tears were streaming down my burning face
[chorus]
I'd caught a heavy cold in Akureyri
Lunch was late and life looked very dreary
[Verse]
Banker, landlord, booking clerk or pope,
whenever he's lost faith in choice and thought,
when a man sees the future without hope,
whenever he endorses hobb's report
"the life of man is nasty, brutish, short"
[chorus]
dragon rises from his garden border
promises to set up law and order
letters from iceland (letters from iceland)
letters from iceland (letters from iceland)
