Saturday, September 10, 2016



Lullaby the Wave:

The first lines came to me when I was getting ready for work one morning.

I met a wave
She said her name was Lullaby
She smelled like the sunshine
I fell for her into the sea

She spoke to me
Of lonely places she had roamed
Hundreds of miles from shore
I could hear the roar in her whisper

I confess I've never surfed. I've tried unsuccessfully to water ski. People say it's easy once you get the hang of it. I face planted several times. I drank a lot of lake water. I guess I didn't want it bad enough.

I imagined that falling for a sort of sea sprite would leave a guy with some pretty intense memories, so I had my surfer daydreaming at work.

Now there's sand in my shoes to remind me
Sitting at my desk, I daydream
The pale green in her eyes
The danger in her smile
Lullaby, Lullaby

The line "Sand in my shoes" was an quote from a Drifters song. Check it out.

The sea is changing constantly with the tide, strong winds, storms, and so on. So I imagined Lullaby would change moods just as quickly.

She grew bored
From my surfboard she threw me hard
Laughing carelessly
Jealous but then suddenly indifferent

She said goodbye
A breaker crashing in the night
At dawn she was gone
And the ocean was calm and as smooth as glass

Now there's sand in my shoes to remind me
Sitting at my desk, I daydream
The pale green in her eyes
The danger in her smile
Lullaby, Lullaby

The third verse repeats the first, so the story is over. 

Until another beautiful wave comes along.

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