Two Boats Under the Moon

The lyrics are a description of Two Boats Village by night, and a counterbalance to the sun-soaked scenes in the song "Casuarina" (the video for which, ironically, shows the island under rare but not unknown cloud cover). The night is lit by a full moon, causing the fronds of the village's fan palms to stand out starkly black against the starlit deep blue of the sky, shining bright silver wherever the moonlight touches them.

The clock tower mentioned in the song belongs to Two Boats School and is visible from most parts of the east (Thistle Hill) end of the village. It tells the right time twice a day at a quarter to two. "Solomon's" refers to the mostly derelict Solomon's supermarket building opposite Two Boats Club.

The chorus, and lines 5-6 of the first verse, allude to the nature of social life in Two Boats and to some extent on Ascension Island more generally - at least while we were there. This was in the very quiet period in the island's life during the COVID-19 pandemic (which didn't reach Ascension while we were there), and while the runway resurfacing was ongoing. "Nobody says, nor knows", but anyone who's lived there recently might well know what's meant by these lines.