Captain o Captain  Only five miles ahead  There lies an island  Only five miles ahead  White hills and beaches  Something green in the blue  Captain o captain  So it all has come true  There's an island in the sun  Come together everyone  Ahead lies an island    Now it's September  We've been sailing so long  One summer one winter  Is this where we belong  Seems only a footstep  Into the setting sun  Our journey has ended  Or has it just begun  There's an island in the sun  Come together everyone  Ahead lies an island    There's an island in the sun  Come together everyone  Ahead lies an island     There they were...the islands. Big ones, small ones, beautiful ones   and wasted ones . . . But wherever they went, wherever they looked,   wherever they put their feet...only uninhabitable, exploited, devastated  sands. . . They encountered everything they meant to leave behind. War...   poison... degeneration . . . Love died a long time ago . . .