Hello Exile (From Exile)

Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro] [Verse 1] Her language was a perfect phrase Every word followed me for days Down the alleyways of my desires To their final resting place In a vacation town where I lived year round She migrated here with the summer crowds And we fell in love under impossible smiles Life was perfect, if just for a little while Oh-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-oh-oh, hello exile [Chorus] And a thousand years may come and go We may nеver meet another soul Herе on our own "Island of Elba" in the Poconos Oh-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-oh-oh, hello exile [Verse 2] And we bathed in the sun, cut our jeans into shorts Outstared every star in the sky Under the cover of nowhere, the present was a present It looked beautiful on you every night But we knew it would end, yeah we knew it all along It was a future never reconciled It's as if letting your shackled heart feel loved Was more difficult than total denial Oh-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-oh-oh, hello exile [Chorus] And a thousand years may come and go I may never meet another soul Here on my own "Island of Elba" in the Poconos Oh-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-oh-oh, hello exile [Guitar Solo] [Verse 3] Now I've been so lonely, I search for your memory In characters from past centuries I caught a pinch of her accent, a twist of her curl So scripted is the fictional world Now I imagined her memory would fade in the void She'd only reappear every now and again I'd smile at the thought of us, go back to my day But that was purely wishful thinking Oh-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-oh-oh, hello exile [Chorus] And a thousand years may come and go We may never meet another soul Here on my own "Island of Elba" in the Poconos And displayed on a nightstand of my mind Are pictures of you from the summertime Swimming in the Delaware Wringing out your long blonde hair Oh-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-oh-oh, hello exile Oh-ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa-oh-ooh-whoa-oh-ooh-whoa, hello exile