Steve Coffee, Songwriter

Island in Time

©2005 Stephen R Coffee

A song about longing, set to a gentle bossa nova. Aw...

The way the light embraced your skin

As the sun was going down

As if it couldn’t bear let go

Such a perfect brown

 

The way the wind played in your hair

As we lay among the dunes

Feeling the rhythm of the waves

And the pull of the moon

 

If I could catch the rising tide

And sail back to that night

If only I could reason with the wind

Get the waves to break just right

Then maybe I could find you

Touch you

Hold you

Once you were here on our island in time

 

The music carried on the breeze

As we gave in to the night

Watching the spray rise off the sea

To scatter the light

 

For those hours beneath the moon

I touched perfection’s face

But daylight found me stranded here

In time and space

 

(Repeat chorus)

 

These memories are like the shells

I find in my daily vigil the shore

A shadow of what lived before

In every one I hear your voice

 

The seasons find their way around

To the place where they began

There must be cycles in the waves

And clouds and man

 

So now I search along the seam

Separating sea and sand

Hoping to slip between the cracks

In heaven’s plan

 

If I could catch the rising tide

And drift back to that night

If only I could reason with the wind

Get the waves to break just right

 

If I could weave a net of stars

And sweep it through the sea

Maybe it would yield its secrets up

To reveal eternity

Then maybe I could find you

Touch you

Hold you

Once you were here on this island in time

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