The Blanket of Night

Paper cup of the boat

Heaving chest of the sea

Carry both of us

Carry her, carry me

From the place we were born

To the land of the free

Carry both of us

Carry her, carry me

The ocean

That bears us from our home

Could save us

Or take us for its own

The danger

That life should lead us here

My angel

Could I have steered us clear?

Gone, the light from her eyes

With the lives that we made

Just the two of us

In the night on the waves

Moving silent her lips

By the moon's only light

Sowing silver prayers

In the blanket of night

The ocean

That bears us from our home

Could save us

Or take us for its own

The danger

That life should lead us here

My angel

Could I have steered us clear?

Paper cup of the boat

Heaving chest of the sea

Carry both of us

Or, swallow her, swallow me