Paul Weinfield - Ship of Light (Live)

SHIP OF LIGHT//Paul Weinfield//In the Carolina darkness I feel a sudden peace. The wind sings in the trees and I think of you, the friend I knew, sleeping far away. You kicked me when I was down, but that dont matter any more. Ive reached this open shore and from my room I see the moon come dancing across the bay ... Its a ship of light, coming to carry me away The dark cicadas sing beneath a mackerel sky. They echo my goodbye to everything I could not bring or carry on my way: The praise I never got for the music that I played, the money I never made -- I'm setting all that free into the silver sea. I'm letting my forgetting hold me in its tender sway ... Cause my ship of light is coming to carry me away ... My ship of light is coming to carry me away ... When you saw me on the corner playing for change, I knew that it was time to leave the city. You said, "It's sad to see the hard time you're going through." I said, "I don't know exactly what that means to you, but the beauty that I love is the beauty that I do -- so you don't have to look at me with pity" ... My lonely lantern flickers in the roaring of the gale. My song to you is frail but it is true, and that will do until some other day. Don't you know that all I wanted was to be loved as I am? No, I do not give a damn about who you hoped I'd be because you are just like me, struggling to be free to love your destiny. So I hope that you can see that though I'm gone tomorrow's dawn will find our love okay ... Because that ship of light is coming to carry us away. That ship of light is coming to carry us away (Etc.)//Words and music copyright of Tam Lin/Paul Weinfield (BMI, 2009)

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