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As a teenager my Uncle Phil served in the British Merchant Navy in the years following WW2. He spent several years travelling all of the world's oceans. Every time that his ship would pass a lighthouse the Chief Officer would point to it and say, "That's the job you want, safe on dry land".
lyrics
The war barely done, sixteen years old and I'm heading off to sea,
There's a whole world lying out there waiting for me to wade right in,
The gun smoke is clearing as we turn the final sod,
Won't look behind and I do my very best to hide the scars,
We sail on the morning tide when there's a veil over the water,
On a coal black night one minute seems a lifetime when you're late,
For the rendezvous with a glowing pearl that guards you on your way,
As the waves lift you higher then drop you like a stone,
Your heart could burst when you glimpse a distant flame amidst the gloom,
Every time we'd see the light,
With his arm around my shoulder,
The chief officer would point and say,
Boy that's where you want to be, safe on solid land,
In a lighthouse on the cape, not rolling out here on the waves,
Now I've sailed every ocean and I've stopped in every port,
I've seen the worst, I've seen the best and I'm weighing up the score,
In the sun and the moonlight I'm like the ocean spray,
I make my way across the sand and my footsteps wash away,
Every time we'd see the light with his arm around my shoulder,
The chief officer would point and say,
boy that's where you want to be, safe on solid land,
In a lighthouse on the cape, not rolling out here on the waves.
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