The Loneliest Place On The Map

Album: Sparks of Ancient Light (2008)
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  • This place is so far away
    From what passes for civilized life
    No shops and no cars and no city lights
    Just a river of stars
    Over the southernmost ocean so cold
    A small group of rocks, seagulls and ice

    Some ramshackle huts
    A paper in french from long ago
    A finger that juts out into the foam
    No boats come this way
    A few expeditions that pass now and then
    They'll be back someday
    But I don't know when

    It's the loneliest place on the map
    Night time is utterly black
    I came here by some grave mishap
    And I can't find my way back

    It's all as remote
    As the wintry smile that you gave
    As you buttoned your coat
    And love was erased
    So this is goodbye
    I see you silently rowing away
    The desolate sky threatening rain

    It's the loneliest place on the map
    Night time is utterly black
    I came here by some grave mishap
    And I can't find my way back
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Comments: 1

  • Richard M. Weber from United StatesThe answer to the question about, "Where is this place?" is the Kerguelen Islands aka The Desolation Islands. It is sub-Antarctic in the South Indian Ocean and has roughly 50-100 people at any time doing research. The reference in the song to, "Over the southernmost ocean so cold. A small group of rocks, seagulls and ice" and "A paper in french from long ago. A finger that juts out into the foam" which are references to is being French and the coastline which has many isthmuses that jab out into the sea like fingers.
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