Away from the shoreline lights
The sea is black with night
Not a star in the heavens seen
Just the sound of waves serene
Cloaked in the fog, a mystic lair
Salty scented summer air
Not a wind to banners fly
No moon hangs in the dark sky
The white capped waves curl on to shore
Loud and crashing then calm once more
Again and again and again they roar
Repeatedly rocking a boat at moor
Out of the darkness a distant light
Blinks upon the velvet night
A beacon to me here on land
Standng on the shifting sand
