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Leaving Langside

Waves are dancing in the harbour,
spray is cool against my face;
life has worn away the armour
that once kept your mem’ry chained.
Cross the channel lights are flashing
through the night for sailors’ eyes;
seems I’ve sailed too many miles now
waiting for the sun to rise

We last met down here in sunlight
in the Mount Stewart public bar.
You were standing by the window
and the sun was o’er Belfast.
We’d lost love we thought was lasting
but could only say hello;
so we’d reached the final parting.
I knew as I watched you go.

Like some creature of the seasons,
these gales drive me here for you.
I’ve lost count of all the reasons;
now Langside seems empty too.
Seagulls ride the wind above me;
they can’t leave this foaming shore,
but I’m leaving here forever,
never leaving your front door.

Chorus
And these cliffs all know when winter’s due
bringing gales and tales of you
to this little town on Scotland’s shore
where you and I loved long ago.

poem by Jim Hogg
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