Single $1
Evocative acoustic balladeer
Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #736
Peak in subgenre #94
Author
Alan Kim Cochran/Alan Kim Cochran
Rights
2008
Uploaded
May 02, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.6 MB • 128 kbps • 5:02
Story behind the song
I was very close to my wife’s extraordinary aunt, Gail (she introduced us, in fact). She died two years ago, at the age of sixty-seven, after a long struggle with cancer, leaving us in quite an emotional state.
It was only after she died that I discovered her poem “Companions on the Beach”, upon which this song is based. It was written by Gail and her old friend Stella Moran, after the death of Gail’s mother and husband. Until then, I’d thought that Gail didn’t have an artistic bone in her body… Quite a surprise.
As an emotional release after our loss, I turned the poem into this song. The song chokes me up a bit, as it reminds me of our lost Gail.
Her friend Stella loves to collect agates on the beaches of Oregon, where she lives, but the song is really about the loss of our loved ones, and expresses an optimism that God will remember them in the resurrection to come.
Perhaps, then, I can play this song for Gail too. She hasn’t heard it, yet…
- Alan Kim Cochran
Lyrics
Agates In The Sand
by Alan Kim Cochran
Come walk with me, along the sea
Where the sunshine warms the land
And search with me, for treasures free
Like agates in the sand
Come wade with me, into the sea
And roil the foaming waves
We'll speak in awe, of the things we saw
In the damp and darkling caves
We'll stand, so tall, on the high cliff wall
'Let the sea breeze fan our hair
'Watch the sand crabs crawl, hear the seagulls call
As they wheel upon the air
Then sleep so sound, hearing the waves pound
In the not-so-distant surf
Wake in the morn, to the old foghorn
As the new day's given birth
So come wade with me, into the sea
And roil the foaming waves
We'll speak in awe, of the things we saw
In the damp and darkling caves
We'll sit and chat, of this and that
As we watch the rolling waves
- Of our loved ones gone, and 'how before long
God will open up the graves
As we wipe our tears, reviewing the years
We'll rejoice in hope, so near
'Back to the sand we'll go, faces aglow
Sharing all we hold so dear
So come wade with me, into the sea
And roil the foaming waves
We'll speak in awe, of the things we saw
In the damp and darkling caves
Come walk with me, along the sea
Where the sunshine warms the land
And search with me, for treasures free
Like agates in the sand
Like agates in the sand
Like agates in the sand
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