EASTER ISLAND
Album: Easter Island
(Kristofferson / Utley)
Kris Kristofferson


Guarding the carcass, we stripped and devided 
To carve up and covet they wait there alone 
Keeping the secret the rest have forgotten 
And staring in silence from sockets of stone 
Built and obeyed with the best of intentions 
Stranger than truth and as lost and alone 
Stranded like dogs in a star-spangled manger 
No good to nothing not even their own 

Chorus: 
Holy-O-my God-I 
can't see the stars in the sky 
for the sun in my eye 

She's like a dream that a world quit believin' 
Caught in the action back to the sea 
How many more might have come from that mountain? 
Barely the creatures they struggled to be 
Surely the death of so grand an illusion 
Left us with legends too great to ignore 
Stone-cut survivors of ancient dimensions 
Lost in the wonder they came to explore. 

Chorus: 
Holy star light far brighter 
than the sun in your eye 
Singing thy will be done 

Repeat chorus: 
Holy star light far brighter 
than the sun in your eye 
Singing thy will be done