A song I wrote remembering a lovely friend who incredibly sadly died during lockdown - of cancer, not Covid. We all know someone.
The metaphor is that in life we live in a drowned village and when we die we swim to shore and start breathing properly, in the sunshine, home and dry.
Home and Dry
Dreaming of tides, in our dreams
We're captive and water-bound,
In lives of currents and streams
We are both living and drowned
Nothing is what it seems,
Memories of light live on,
It haunts the darkest of our dreams,
We yearn for warm skies and sun
And yet...
Somehow I know where you can be found
You stand in a place
Under clear blue skies
And somewhere the sun is shining down
It's warm on your face and you're home and dry.
Church bells toll gently and echo,
Swaying in the silver swells
We turn and turn with the flow
We drift in time to the bells
The sea over us and below,
Trapped, here our souls remain
Our shades caught in the undertow
The shadows bind us like chains...
And somehow...
But I miss you more than I can say
You are not lost, not lost but couldn't stay
So I dream of dawn
When the flood tide of light transforms
The night
And the dark is washed away
And you heard a voice whispering
'It's time to escape the deep
To swim to shore,
To breathe once more
Time to awaken from sleep'
What makes me still linger here
Where tides surge and drag me down?
I feel that sometimes you are near
Breathing sunlight, being undrowned...
And somehow...