Written at Moruya Heads in 1978 during a road trip with my old school mate Harry. I added the chorus in 2019.

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Salted Lips of Time (Song)

 

Reaching from a wind-swept dream, oh yeah
A silent pleasure-ground
Of smiling sun
And dancing seas, eternity above,
A fire within,
A fire within.

Sailing, gliding, sifting promises
Of love-dried sand through answered cries;
A seagull diving, I above, unclothed
And free, licking salted lips of time -
And life, a fresh-blown memory
On morning’s eyes.

Oh the wind-swept dream
Oh the smiling sun
Moruya memories
When the world was one

Oh the wind-swept dream
And the smiling sun
Fading memories
One by one

Alive, enchanted, feeling with the sky
And for a world apart, a past denied
A dream embraced, my wind-swept dream,
My sailing, silent carousel of love,
This freshness draining tears to sighs,
And pleasure to our Mother’s mastery.

Oh the wind-swept dream
Oh the smiling sun
Moruya memories
When the world was one

Oh the wind-swept dream
And the smiling sun
Fading memories
One by one

Fading memories
One by one
Fading memories
One by one

Moruya Heads, November 1978 (as amended)

© Michael G Reid 1978-2019, all rights reserved