A Gift At The Seaside

[grateful]

on the beach this weekend, missing those gone from me and anticipating a month with my west coast family here, on this lovely patch of the northeast coast

so I was missing me Da a little (okay, a lot) I come from a long line of beach bums - and my decades of summers on the beach with him ended not so long ago

this song came to my sleepy ear (via my DJ son in law)and lifted me up - it was as if he was singing to me

(and the part about "moving his mouth" was so germaine, he had some strokes and there were times when he could"t talk..)

In the Aeroplane over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

What a beautiful face

I have found in this place

That is circling all round the sun

What a beautiful dream

That could flash on the screen

In a blink of an eye and be gone from me

Soft and sweet

Let me hold it close and keep it here with me

And one day we will die

And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea

But for now we are young

Let us lay in the sun

And count every beautiful thing we can see

Love to be

In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me

Anna's ghost all around

Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me

Soft and sweet

How the notes all bend and reach above the trees

Now how I remember you

How I would push my fingers through

Your mouth to make those muscles move

That made your voice so smooth and sweet

And now we keep where we don't know

All secrets sleep in winter clothes

With one you loved so long ago

Now he don't even know his name

What a beautiful face

I have found in this place

That is circling all round the sun

And when we meet on a cloud

I'll be laughing out loud

I'll be laughing with everyone I see

Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all

we'll meet on a cloud and we'll be laughing out loud, I'm sure of it

(and Anna was my Grandma)

Edited June 30, 2010 by grateful

[RevRainbow]

[Great Cthulhu]

What a beautiful tribute! Thanks for sharing!