Man Is an Island - Emmylou Harris

Man is an island: sadly adrift

Wand’ring forever, while continents shift

He came out of nowhere, no shirt on his back

Armed for survival, no plan of attack…

He went to the mountain, he went to the sea;

He cried for protection, but begged to be free

He fell on that mountain, he drowned in the sea --

Blind to the order, death to the harmony

Nature’s his rival, nature’s his friend;

In the beginning there was no end

God is his island -- He made the sun

Nature, mankind as one…

Man is an island: sadly adrift

Wand’ring forever, while continents shift

God is his island -- He made the sun

Nature, mankind as one

God is his island -- He made the light!

Man on his island waits for the end of night

In the beginning there was no end…