Sailing to Paradise
1. Hands of Gold
2. Into the Blue
3. Escaping to You
4. Sailing to Paradise
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The station lay empty,
The last train was there,
A cold wind was moving
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Friday night down at the local bar,
Same old faces, same old jar,
Darts in the corner, cards being played,
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We don't decide where the morning goes
Or tell the tide which way it flows
We raise the sail
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We slipped from Calais before first light
The Channel grey
The gulls in flight
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The glass fell hard at half past four
The wind backed west
Then backed once more
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I slipped the ropes at break of day
The harbour lights were turning grey
A gull cried somewhere overhead
1. The Last Harvest
2. In Case You Didn't Know
3. Empty Chair at the table
4. Question in the Wind
1. Ghost of a Summer
2. Don't Tell me Lies
3. Bip Bam Baby Doo Wop Ballad
4. The Other Side of the Wall
1. One Front Door at a Time
2. Standing by the Gate
3. 3.17 A.M
4. The Light House Keeper's Wife
1. The Bench by the Harbour
2. The Accordion in the Attic
3. Maggie at the Post Office
4. The Last Bus to Ballymore
1. All the Luck was Mine
2. If I Could Say Hello Again
3. She Thought it Must be Love
4. Father Flynn's Bicycle
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His hands were never handsome,
Knuckles swollen, fingers scarred,
Black beneath the nails on Friday,
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He was twenty-three that winter,
Working cargo on the quay,
Three days tied up in Bergen,
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I keep looking at the mantel,
At the clock we bought one spring,
Funny how the hands keep moving
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Nothing happened today,
The kettle boiled at eight,
The postman pushed two letters through,
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For forty years the telephone rang,
Something leaking, something gone wrong,
“Can you come round?” — “Can you lend a hand?”
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We never saw the moment come,
Never heard it at the door,
One minute life was ordinary,
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There's an old road waiting,
Under branches hanging low,
Where the great oaks meet above you,
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I know the word for sorrow,
I've never shed a tear.
I know the shape of loneliness,
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You stood there by the station,
Your coat against the rain,
I can't recall the words now,
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We left the streets of Swindon,
With the morning rolling west,
Two and a half hours of England,
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Something in your eyes tonight
Doesn’t feel the same
There’s a quiet in your smile
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Morning light came soft and gold
Through the window by the door,
You were somewhere far behind your eyes
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I set four plates like I always do,
out of habit, not thinking it through —
Stopped.
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I stood where the road just gives up and stops,
called your name into the tall grass, bending low —
Nothing.
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I used to think I had it figured
Used to think I knew it all
Talked more than I listened
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The bus pulls out at half past nine,
You wave goodbye and I try not to cry,
Three months apart is a mighty long time,
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They call him the quiet man
Always on time, always so kind
Doin' everything right
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Used to dread the shortening light
Used to fight the coming night
Summer's gold would fade to grey