The Sound of Coming Home

Alberta Skies

Wake with the morning tide
The ocean’s faithful hymn all night
Seabirds call out at dawn
Foghorn a lonely forewarning
Thought that we’d grow old together
Hand in hand
Somehow now I find myself on far-off land
Alberta skies have drawn me in
I was a wayfarer unknown
Not what I know but where I roam
I’m homesick and I’m home
Scattered like coloured glass
Upon the pebbles cast to find
Sun sets across the bay
Still on the fiddles play all night
Thought that we’d grow old together
Hand in hand
Somehow now I find myself on far-off land
Alberta skies have drawn me in
I was a wayfarer unknown
Not what I know but where I roam
I’m homesick and I’m home
Forever in between always leaving love behind me
I fall with the flowing tide
But home will always find me
Thought that we’d grow old together
Hand in hand
Somehow now I find myself on far-off land
Alberta skies have drawn me in
I was a wayfarer unknown
Not what I know but where I roam
I’m homesick and I’m home

Emerald Beach

How much longer? The baby’s crying
We’ve been driving night and day
But that sky, look out your window
It’ll take your breath away
From the south blows relief
From restlessness to peace
Standing still feeling all
The endless pull and sweep
And I don’t know about you
But I could stay a year or two
Between heaven and what’s here
Hear that song in the air
The rhythm on the waves
Out at sea a lighthouse spins
Short nights into long days
And I don’t know about you
But it’s a shame to leave so soon
Now it feels like heaven’s real
Oh, why can’t we settle here
Where love is always near as sand upon your skin?
Cause home is in the place between our faults and grace
And I don’t know about you
I’ve been made completely new
Now that heaven has come near

To a Child

The leaves talked in the twilight dear
Oh, the tale they told
How in some far-off place and year
Before the world grew old
How when the chiding gale was still
When peace fell soft on fear
You stayed one golden hour to fill
My dream with singing my dear
I was a dreaming forest tree
You were a wild, sweet bird
Who sheltered at the heart of me
Because the north wind stirred
To night the self-same songs are sung
The first green forest heard
My heart and the grey world grow young
To shelter you my bird
I was a dreaming forest tree
You were a wild, sweet bird
Who sheltered at the heart of me
Because the north wind stirred
I was a dreaming forest tree
You were a wild, sweet bird
Who sheltered at the heart of me
Because the north wind stirred

Anchor (Carleigh’s Song)

You were there inside a dream
I hadn’t met you yet
But I knew one day I would
Knew one day I could
Searching for a hidden friend
Crossing state lines all alone
But I knock on wood
I knew one day I would
I was always on the outside all alone
Longing for a place to anchor and call it home
A quiet day a nowhere town
I saw you passing time
An anchor with no line
My dream it came alive
I was inside your dream too
Against all hope you always
Hoped that I’d find you
You knew the waiting too
I was always on the outside you brought me in
To the table where a stranger becomes kin
Love they say is not a victory march
But then sometimes love can flash a flood into your heart
Oh friend of mine

Yellow Flower

Pick me a yellow flower
I’ll keep it safe until we get home
And if you tire wildflower
I’ll keep you safe from thorn and stone
It’s a long way home for precious you
It’s a long way home but not for two
When I can’t carry you I’ll think of this
Your daylily smile up next to mine
Until that day comes I’ll cherish this
Mustard coloured dress arms reaching high
It’s a long way home for summer shoes
It’s a long way home but I’ve got you
Oh, and I, I will climb every hill for you
Every blow, every sadness carried too
Should a wind turn these skies and meadows cold
I’ll wait here if I must I will let you go
It’s a long way home for precious you
It’s a long way home but not for two
Pressed in a book a yellow flower
Patient and safe and full of grace
Beyond the hills my wildflower
Moves with the wind so full of grace
It’s a long way home for summer shoes
It’s a long way home but I’ve got you

October

October, October where did you go?
I waited and waited, you left me alone
October, October why’d you leave me?
Did you already know
That life is made of sorrow
And there’s a better place to go
But all you ever knew was love
All you ever held – my heart
The swell might pull me under
I’m swimming against the tide
We are seabirds soaring homeboundSteady on the ride
Let’s take the rocky coastline
The hard and weathered climb
Let’s keep on fighting
Until October’s mine
Your life brought light into the dark
The blessing of a fire within a spark
Life comes with arms open
But falters on approach
A lesson in endlessly waiting on hope

The Sound of Coming Home

It was always you even before I knew
The missing part of me
Then why do I give the worst of me
When you are my greatest gift
And I watch you close your eyes
I watch you fall asleep
To the sound of coming home
The sound of coming home
You take all my time and break all my things
Yet you show me magic every day
To me you run, to me you call
When you need someone the most
And I watch you close your eyes
I watch you fall asleep
To the sound of coming home
The sound of coming home

So Clear

I don’t need to look far to find you
The touch of my skin
The shape of my hands
I don’t need to look far to find you
The sound of my voice
The words from my mouth
When I miss you most
I hold my baby close
You are here
You are here
I remember everything so clear
So clear
I don’t need to fear I’ll forget you
I love what you loved
Live how you lived
I don’t need to fear I’ll forget you
I hear it over and over
I look just like you
When I miss you most
I hold my baby close
You are here
You are here
I remember everything so clear

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