Tower Sailors

Why is it so hard to remember the good things?
Why can't I see through the veil?
Though I'm sure you really loved me
The cloudy pictures prevail
In the poem I read on your funeral
You wrote about grass and sunlight
The honeysuckle blooming
Its fragrance so sweet in the night
You wrote about the tower sailors living their lives on the wing
Tower sailors who watch over everything
How I wish we'd be up there
Without the stones we had to bear
Tower sailors
The shame goes down the generations
The shadow we all try to hide
Tears dry up for all the wrong reasons
The anger is locked up inside
A memory suddenly reappears
We're in a boat on the lake, you and I
You take my hand and say "listen, child"
Point to the birds in the sky
And I see the tower sailors living their lives on the wing
Tower sailors who watch over everything
How I wish we'd be up there
Without the stones we had to bear
Tower sailors
You know that everything's forgiven
Though sometimes there is pain
For all the words left unsaid
I find this old refrain
I sing about the
Tower sailors living their lives on the wing
Tower sailors who watch over everything
How I wish we'd be up there
Without the stones we had to bear
Tower sailors
Tower sailors
Tower sailors