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