I don't have much time to play guitar these days, so I have this little tradition to keep the music alive in me: I write a song for every story I write. This one's for The Carousel Graveyard. The waltzy, carousel-like tune popped into my head in the middle of the night last August. I couldn't fall back asleep, so I got up and recorded a voice memo on my phone of me humming in a groggy voice. Then a few days ago, I found that memo and decided to put words and guitar to it and finish the song. I played it for my fifteen-year-old daughter yesterday, and with wrinkled brows she said, "Wait, this is a love song." (She hasn't read my story yet, but it does have "graveyard" in the title, lol.) "I know, this is just a happy moment," I replied. Next time I'll have to write a creepy song, but until then, let's all feel the sweet innocence of young love. :-)
DREAMERS
Holding your hand in the moonlight
Waves dance, stars bright
Waltzing in time inside your dreams
Hearts beat, it seems
I’m falling in love
Falling in love
With you
With you, with you, with you
Stepping through sand by the black sea
Night birds calling
Lips touching lips, breathing your name
Feeling the same
We’re falling in love
Falling in love
It’s true
True, true, true
And you say we’re spinning
‘Round the carousel
And I say we’re drifting
in the spell
Sea breezes swirling through your hair
Soft sighs, no cares
Wandering dreamers, we’re soul bound
Time lost, we’re found
We’re falling in love
Falling in love
It’s true
It's true, it's true, it's true
True, true, true
True, true, true
