Beach Song

 I hear through my thin walls a cry

  in the shack by the ocean where I lie

  the sound of two people inside

  in the dark, when the moon is not so high

  "Oh my lover I love you, come to me

  Oh my lover I love you, come to me"

  I can't sleep, I walk in the moonlight

  with the sound ringing 'round inside my head

  I know they are trying to be so quiet

  but they can't keep from calling out instead

  "Oh my lover I love you, come to me

  oh my lover I love you, come to me"

  "I have waited for you so long

   in the night with a fire in the wind

  I have waited for you so long

  now I lie in your holy arms again."

  I come back to see they are sleeping

  in the sand like a puppy or a child

  I'll hold your secret for safekeeping

  for the sound of the fire in the wild

  but the echo of your lovemaking

  keeps me up long beyond the sunrise

  like a cymbal or a bell that rings

  long beyond any time the drummer strikes

  "oh my lover I love you, come to me

  oh my lover I love you, come to me"

     M@  2009