the salt water dries upon my skin and the waves keep on crashing crashing in i stand on the shore with my back to the wind but my voice keeps on calling out to him i remember the day you sailed away with my tears in your hair my feet in the clay your ship was a shadow your ghost my only friend i will wait patiently for you to come home again twelve years of letters set out to sea washing my words to the bottom with thee and if i have my way they will bury me in the ocean of sorrows where our love still breathes