Song Description

Summarizes a 27 year journey of love & relationships from first love to true love. Draws on themes from Homer's The Odyssey.

Lyrics

A Lover's Journey

© Gavin Atkins 2007

I'm seventeen, it's Sunday and a sunny afternoon
and I'm heading on a bus-ride with her, hoping she's the tune
to the words of love; they're swimming in my heart and mind.
This Dawn, so fresh and innocent; I'm overwhelmed and blind.

She said "love is like the moon: forever turning new
and beautiful."
"But beauty", I confessed, "I've found in you!"
She said "Please don't look at me that way! I'm much too young."
How was I to understand the journey I'd begun?

So, I'm closer to the wind; I'm sailing on forever more,
following a lover's journey heading for a distant shore.

Like the seven seas, this odyssey's a tale of seven more.
The first took my virginity, the second I adored.
She bore my children and for that I've no regrets
but she took them, leaving me with beer and cigarettes.

So, again I'm on the ocean sailing on forever more,
following a lover's journey heading for a distant shore.

A muse, my third, released my heart with passion so alive;
she filled my sails and lit my way through journeys four and five.

Goddess Athene had foretold me all; "beware a ring."
But Calypso's island beckoned; the sixth journey I begin.
She tempted me, enchanted me; to her I would belong,
though visions of my true love, Penelope, were strong.

So astride a wooden raft I ride Poseidon's stormy seas.
But with Athene's words, the north wind brings my heavy heart some ease.

Twenty Seven years and seven seas would pass before
my heart would find Penelope upon a distant shore.
Though battle scars had marked me and my tears had run me dry,
her open arms embraced me and I knew I had arrived.

So together we are sailing on towards the setting sun
and we know that, when we get there, a new day's just begun.

So, I'm closer to the wind; I'm sailing on forever more,
following a lover's journey with the one that I adore.

Playlist Creator	Playlist Name	Date Added
Nick Fuse	Like Minds	2/16/2012