Steve wrote:
We came by the boatload,
and were immobilized:
worshipping volcanoes,
charting the loping skies.
The tides of the earth
left us bound, and calcified,
and made as obstinate as obsidian,
unmoving, save our eyes:*
just mooning and blinking
* ..................... I'd always heard this as 'Unmoving sable eyes' and am a bit disappointed to find it thus in the lyrics, to the extent that I even checked it in the booklet!
I used to think it was 'sable' too, but I prefer the actual lyrics. The image of a person encased in ash, the only sign they're still alive being their eyes, 'charting the loping skies'. I think it's so beautiful.