This is a song I wrote not long after my dad passed away. It hasn’t made it onto a record yet but maybe it will someday. It’s a song I return to every month or so, sung teary-eyed in my basement with the angels surrounding me.
Sometimes when I driveWhen nobody’s with me
My voice fills the night
But nobody hears
My prayer of goodbye
My plea for your memory to survive
Maybe keep you alive
’cause you were a light when living grew darker
You were a calm in worrying water
More than a calm, more like an anchor
Anchor of faith and hope and love
What more of a life
Could anyone ask for
Than to live it most kind
And to leave a soft trail
Along which we’re still lined
Our gaze chasing after your blue sail
Rising up through the pale
’cause you were a light when living grew darker
You were a calm in worrying water
More than a calm, more like an anchor
Anchor of faith and hope and love
Nowhere, how did you go there?
What is this world without you now?
’cause you were the light when living
And you were the calm in worrying water
More than a calm, more like an anchor
Anchor of faith and hope and love
An anchor of flesh and bone and blood
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