Only Daughter

Moon is on the water

I am an only daughter

Thinking of my mother and father

Dusk hits the bay

Tired old rowboat creaking

Purple martins speaking

In tongues of my childhood teaching

What I used to know

Maybe I'll find myself back in my mother's arms

If I could just find myself

'Stead of sitting here wishing on a setting star

Burning bright

Dusty comet tails trailing

Remind me of casting out in the dark and waiting

For the pull of the line, now it's fading

Into the black

Spent all my life chasing

Had to feel my heart racing

To know I's alive and not wasting

Everything I had

Maybe I'll find myself back in my mother's arms

If I could just find myself

'Stead of sitting here wishing on a setting star

Losing light

Losing light

Losing light

Cassiopeia's wrapped 'round me

Crescent moon is drowning

On a wave of ancient sounds

I'm comin' into shore

And I find myself back in my mother's arms

And I find myself

And I find myself

And I find myself back in my mother's arms

My mother's arms

In my mother's arms among the setting stars

Out of sight

Out of sight

Burning bright