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Coming Home

from Watching Wildlife by The Moonbeams

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Coming Home
I walk down the rain washed streets
City lights shimmer at my feet
And it reminds me of the moonlight on the river
And I’m drowning in the sound
Of the sirens, the cars and the crowds
And I realise it’s time to reconsider
I think of home and my family
Of the fells, the dales, the north country
I see it all now as clear as can be and I’m thinking – I should be going home

She’ll be there at the kitchen table
Spreading the cloth for their tea
Her hands as brown and fragile as last year’s leaves
He’ll be looking the lambs by the wall
His body as bent as the thorn
That’s twisted by the wind on Malham Moor
And I know that they’ll be thinking of me
In the fells, the dales, the north country
And I know that they would like to believe that one day I’ll be- coming home

The barn owl glides to the night
On wings as silent as snow
Drifting over the walls and the meadows
The heron stands still in the stream
As if carved from the rock and it seems
To wait as patiently as any gravestone
It’s all there in my mind’s eye you see
The fells, the dales and the north country
And I can hear it calling out and telling me – I should be going home

I can see my home and my family
The fells and the dales and the wild country
It’s the only place for me and one day I’ll be –

Coming home - coming home - coming home

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from Watching Wildlife, released February 2, 2015

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The Moonbeams Long Preston, UK

The Moonbeams sing their ‘Songs from the Dales’ telling tales of life and loving, and of laughing and enjoying life. Their contemporary folk based music skilfully evokes the beauty of their homeland, carrying you on a lyrical journey through the fells and dales of Yorkshire. Songs of rain, sun, and fells capture that elusive feeling of what it means to escape from the humdrum of everyday life. ... more

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