[00:40.50]In the burning days
[00:45.00]Of unnatural light
[00:49.15]I took a long drive
[00:53.01]Into the evening
[00:57.62]On the barracks road
[01:01.29]past the generals' eyes
[01:05.51]down to the seawall
[01:09.62]where the waves stand by
[01:29.50]The enormous lull
[01:34.15]then the roar in the sky
[01:38.52]and then the searchlights
[01:42.56]over the airfield
[01:47.32]And over the ocean
[01:51.19]winging low
[01:55.09]I saw the first wave
[01:58.95]and the flares that fall
[02:05.63]like fireflies
[02:14.23]on the islands
[02:37.92]In the boom and swell
[02:42.67]from the waves to the heights
[02:46.96]reverberations
[02:51.03]of our old lives
[02:55.87]Like a golden bell
[02:59.53]that would ring through the night
[03:03.58]and then the front moves
[03:07.67]and we raise our eyes
[03:13.50]in the silence of the island