BEA’S SONG

Bea's Song, The Stuff Page, The Vampire's WifeJust sitting and listening to a heartbreaking tune from the Cowboy Junkie’s called Bea’s Song and wondering if this might be a Song of Devastation and I’m thinking I should ring my husband and see what he thinks about it, but it's late and he’s in Zagreb playing his own Songs of Devastation, and I’ve listened to it five times in a row and get to the line that says, ‘John’s at my side, but he’s on firmer ground’ and pretty much lose it. Just the best of songs, and wonderful to have this thing of beauty spinning through the world. Love Susie x

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui8kUKuLBaU

 

Bea’s Song

 

Speed river at my feet running low and flat

I'm sitting here burning daylight

Thinking about the past

And that distance out there

Where the earth meets the sky

The slightest move and this river mud

Pulls me further down

John's at my side, but he's sitting on firmer ground

John says I look at the moon and the stars

These days more often than I look into his eyes

And I can't disagree so I don't say nothing

I just stare on past his face at Venus rising

Like a shining speck of hope hanging over the horizon

 

With each passing year that I sit here

That horizon seems to inch just that much nearer

And all that appears on it seems as clear as spit

 

But if there's one thing in my life

That these years have taught

It's that you can always see it coming

But you can never stop it

 

Speed river at my feet running low and flat

I'm sitting here burning daylight

Thinking about the past

And that distance out there

Where the earth meets the sky

The slightest move and this river mud

Pulls me further down

John's at my side

But he's not noticing that I'm drowning

The slightest move and this river mud

Pulls me further down

John's at my side

But he's not noticing that I'm drowning.