Lighthouse Child

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Only child of the lighthouse keeper
Never climb the stairs
Beyond the door with the lightning sign
Never in there, never in there

Only child of the lighthouse keepers
TV glow and their wine
Fortified to port and firing
Shots at each other
All through the night

Hey little friends in the rockpools
Hey little friends on the crags
Feather and bone
And the dead in the stones
Can we ever be lonely
If we are never alone?
Can we ever be lonely
If we are never alone?

Only child of the lighthouse keeper
Scrub and clean the stairs
Drowning dolls to find them later
In salty hollows
And drag them tender

Only child of the lighthouse
There's a wreck in everything
And the light keeps getting in
Radio, radio
There's one left alive

Hey little friends in the rockpools
Hey little friends on the crags
Feather and bone
And the dead in the stones
Can we ever be lonely
If we are never alone?
Can we ever be lonely
If we are never alone?
Can we never be lonely?

~ Brendan Bonsack 2024



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