Rockliffe Bay

Rockliffe Bay - Lucy Spraggan

He said part of me

Has been lost at sea

Never to return again

With her eyes wide open

She was softly spoken

Said: "babe are you missing the breeze again "

You look so fine sailor

Your shoes still shine

After years of a house that don't sway

But she could see

In his eyes that ship's flag still flies

And his home was a ocean away

He sang freedom was mine

For one last time

When I was sailing along those waves

But now my plate don't slide

And my rum's now wine

And I will never be the same

I don't hear birds no more

But there's swallows on my hands

I earnt a star that wasn't plucked from above

I have memories of friends

Who left this earth as young men

My hairs as white as my hat once was

He sang freedom was mine

For one last time

When I was sailing along those waves

But now my plate don't slide

And my rum's now wine

And I will never be the same

I hear a blast in the background

Feel the wind whip my face

Towing a sister ship

That didn't make it home

Colours fade away from me as

I awake my wife said

"I'm sleeping next to my own"

He sang freedom was mine

For one last time

When I was sailing along those waves

And now my plate don't slide

And my rum's now wine

And I will never be the same

He sang freedom was mine

For one last time

When we were sailing along those waves

And now my plate don't slide

And my rum's now wine

And I will never be the same