Seven Days

It's the North Devon winters that drive us all to sea

To the cold banks searching for the shoals

I am a week away from harbour and the nets are drifting

free

Still empty and there's nothing in our hold

So we turn to the north for the last time

It's one more haul and then we'll head for home

Four hours up on deck then four hours down below

Thinking of you waking all alone

Seven days and seven hours have passed

Since we said goodbye

Beside the old sea wall

And every sunrise, every sunset

I dream of you

Over the orange ocean

And I pray

And as I wait I remember

Your gentle touch and your face

And I miss you

And I love you

Where are you love are you out there in the night?

Think of me the wiating fire still burns

Where are you love it's the early morning light

That wakes me oh when will you return?

I am deep in the heart of a storm rolling sea

A hundred miles from safety on the shore

But lost in your arms that's where I should be

Rescue me and I'll sail no more

Where are you love are you out there in the night?

Think of me the wiating fire still burns

Where are you love it's the early morning light

That takes me

On a rising tide

And breaks me

By the waterside

Then wakes me

As the waves collide

When will you return