The Lighthouse

For all my years I’ve sailed the seas

In the hope you might come after me

But hopes are hopes and never true

So I jumped the boat and swam to you

I swam to you

I met you at the theatre

Caught smoking by the backstage door

Your face half-lit in candlelight

But I walked without you through the night

The lonely night

And perhaps when I’m out dancing

You’ll look at me and smile

With your eyes just like the lighthouse

Which burns beyond a mile

My days of endless swimming

Come calmly to an end

But these dreams are little fictions

And I’ll sail the seas

Once again

For all my life I’ve watched the shore

Never knowing what I’m looking for

The quiet tide brings broken things,

Long since vanished hearts and tarnished rings

Old rusted rings

And perhaps when I’m out dancing

I’ll find you dancing too

And we’ll dance between the headlights

Singing songs we never knew

My days of endless swimming

Come calmly to an end

But these dreams are little fictions

And I’ll sail the seas

Oh I’ll sail to sea

Once again