The Shore

As the earth was still sleeping

I walked from my house

All the way up to the hills

With a peaceful and blissful dawn I was greeted

And palm trees were standing so still

Down the road through the gates

There my father was off to the shore

As he did every day

On a sailboat he left in the dawn

Then I looked to my right

Where the earliest light

Had begun to enlighten our walls

Another day waited me, to my own mystery

I was wondering the price of it all

Since the time we fought wars

And with scores after scores

Our brothers and others were slain

We had grown into one, we had basked in the sun

We had time to just live here in peace

Down the road through the gates

There my father was off to the shore

As he did every day

On a sailboat he left in the dawn

On a sailboat he left in the dawn...