A Love Letter Home to Janice

I’m stood on Signal Hill without you
You’re at home with our baby girl
And I’m thinking, without you beside me
It’s a little less beautiful world
And I’m brave enough for a lonely night
But no one’s strong enough to overdose
I long for God’s caress of grace
In the touch of having my loved one close

And David Gray is on the radio
Years after we began to play it
Like the love I had for you, girl
Long before the courage or sense to say it
And I’m dreaming of coming up over that rise
To see the north Antrim horizon give way
To Fair Head standing oh so strong
And the beauty of Ballycastle Bay

And snuggled there beneath her shoulder
Is warmth and peace and love
I’ll tell you 10,000 miles away
It’s that cottage I’m thinking of
And the lights on Knocklayde like candles
Flickering love down Taize Glen
Stars twinkling their distant beauty
And I’m back in your arms again.

Cape Town [ July 2000 ] / Ballycastle [ March 2001 ]

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