No News, Good News - New York

You're off in the city
Traveling to countries
That my eyes will never witness
I fade into the landscape
Waiting for daybreak
And the news of your return

To your old hometown
The place where we sat out
And stared at the lake while time melted away
We drank in all the bars
The corners we called ours
You kept me sane when things weren't quite okay

I heard that ship
Had sailed west
Well I wish you the best

Tell me all your tales when you have returned

Now I hear a voice whisper
It's clean and gold and crisp
Hers was the only one that could talk me round

I felt joy
I felt sorrow
When you went with the swallows
They returned with the sun at their backs

And they sang me a birdsong
About the distance that they had gone
And the strangeness the world had to see
In fact, I did not mind
The jealous green flame died
This place has enough strange for me

I heard that ship
Had sailed west
Well I wish you the best

Tell me all your tales when you have returned

Written by:
Kevin Garland

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