The Pearl Fishermen (Live BBC Richard Skinner 1/10/1989)

The Pearl Fishermen (Live BBC Richard Skinner 1/10/1989) - All About Eve

The milkmoons dwell in their quiet shells

Where they fell from the heaven

Two pearl fishermen hold their breath again

Fight to the death again for the same prize

Oh my brother one of us loses

One must drown and the other she chooses

The jade of the blue offers diamonds to you

But you find it's not true when the sun sets

You dive far below

Where the sun doesn't go

Where your brother won't know

And you hear her saying

Oh my lover now that you've found me

Now your brother is bound to be drowned

I don't know why you'd feud over me

All those pearls lay asleep on the sea bed

The pearl in his hand

She's just a grain of sand

She's dressed up as snow

In the moonlight

She's porcelain

On his sallow skin

He's been taken in

By illusion

Oh my brother we're both of us losers

I don't know why she ever did choose us

To call one her lover and bury the other

So I'll hold my breath 'til the story is over