Lyrics:

I'll take a journey through the town to dock gate one
And there I'll take a ferry boat
That ferry sails across the Solent waters deep
To an island like a castle with a moat

I'll leave the empty shores of Hythe and Netley Bay
The smoke of Fawley soon will fade
And I'll be bound where something undecided waits
A memory or a useless masquerade?

Back to the island in the rain
Before the seasons and the weathers change
I'm searching for the ghosts that haunt this island view
One looks like me one has the face of you
One looks like me one has the face of you

I'll go to bars we used to go to every day
To Tennyson's statue carved in stone
It's stayed the same throughout the passing of the years
But we were made of faithless flesh and bone


This time of year it rains on every empty beach
This time of year the summer souvenirs are gone
No slot machines, candy floss or novelties
Like love affairs picked up and lost along the prom
There's only lovers walking in the rain
The way we did before another season came

Ghosts, shadows, spirits of a dream
Or just players in a scene?

Back to the island in the rain
Before the seasons and the weathers change
I'm searching for the ghosts that haunt this island view

Back to the island in the rain/This time of year it rains on every empty beach
Before the seasons and the weathers change/This time of year the summer souvenirs are gone
I'm searching for the ghosts that haunt this island view
Like love affairs picked up and lost along the prom/Back to the island in the rain
There's only lovers walking in the rain/Before the seasons and the weathers change
The way we did before another season came/I'm searching for the ghosts that haunt this island view

Ghosts, shadows, spirits of a dream/Back to the island in the rain
Before the seasons and the weathers change/Or just players in a scene?
I'm searching for the ghosts that haunt this island view