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Sanibel Light
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Waltzing Folk-Ballad about lighthouses, loss, and letting go.
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Songwriter specializing in modern rock, country, easy listening and pop music.
I'm a songwriter with a wide variety of influences. I am currently seeking a publisher for one or more of my songs. Though I focus on commercially viable Country/Rock and Adult Contemporary, my wide range of infuences ensures that on any given CD of my work, there's something for all tastes in music.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #279
Peak in subgenre #16
Author
Capers Simmons
Rights
2005
Uploaded
June 16, 2005
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MP3 4.8 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Lyrics
“Sanibel Light” Capers Simmons VERSE I Out on the Gulf there’s a man and his daughter In a rusty shrimp trawler, trawling for shrimp They count every sparkling reflection on water And the lighthouse’s lantern, shining for ships VERSE II His wife was named Sanibel, after that beacon Though to hear her man speakin’, ‘twas the other way ‘round But she’d started dying when their child started living A cancer, a consumption they could not confound. PRECHORUS Now he sails t’wards the storm, a great unnamed hurricane The man knows it’s coming, hears the first thunder crack His daughter’s just four, her mother died yesterday She don’t know that Daddy doesn’t plan to sail back CHORUS Sanibel Light, shine through the rain Throw a glow on the water, and show them the way Storms can sink ships, the strong lose their grip The fearless can falter, and hope—it can fade Fight back the night, anchors aweigh, Sanibel Light over San Carlos Bay For these restless souls of the sailors still roll on the waves VERSE II He kisses her once, and puts on her raincoat Turns off the Morse code that’s screaming below He knows just what’s coming, turns off the radio And at the same moment, when the wind starts to blow PRECHORUS His daughter says, “Daddy, tell me why you’re crying. Are you scared of lightning and thunderstorms? ‘Cause as long as the lighthouse Sanibel’s burning I am never frightened, ‘cause I’m not alone.” ~ CHORUS ~ BRIDGE Well he looked to the lighthouse, and saw it was stable Its strength never failed, it’d seen storms before Well storms come and go, and hurricanes blow But people keep going right up to the shore VERSE III He held close his daughter, and prayed for a miracle And then they saw Sanibel on the horizon Shimmering lightning, she flashed like a carnival And they got their miracle, because they survived ~ CHORUS ~
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