Rockliffe Bay

He said part of me has been lost at sea Never to return again With her eyes wide open She was softly spoken She 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 Yet 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 But now my plate don't slide And my rum's now wine And I will never be the same