Westering Home - by
Chorus
/ Westering home, and a song in the air,
/ Light in the eye and it’s goodbye to care.
/ Laughter o’ love,…
Chorus
/ Westering home, and a song in the air,
/ Light in the eye and it’s goodbye to care.
/ Laughter o’ love,…
Cianalas:
/ Who would have thought
/ I’d have to come
/ so far from home
/ to find a word that perfectly captures
/ the…
From the corner of Scotland I know so well
/ I see Edinburgh sprawling like seven cats
/ on its seven hills beside…
In the finished house a flame is brought to the hearth.
/ Then a table, between door and window
/ Where a…
The banister begs for biddable bodies.
/ The pantry pleads for plentiful provisions.
/ The cooker cries out for creative cuisine.
/ The…
In the liquorice house
/ there is a liquorice clock
/ which beats out liquorice time.
/
/ In the liquorice house
/ there are liquorice…
You like safe sounds:
/ the dogs lapping at their bowls;
/ the pop of a cork on a bottle of plonk…
Little sea house,
/ when I found you,
/ the yellow poppies
/ …
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