For Sue

Catcherside: by Ian Scott, played by Nick Leeming

First footsteps on the flagstones then the pumping of the drones

It’s Catcherside the piper plays up high there in the stones

Watching the sea’s incoming waves but his thoughts are far away

Crossing over to life from death his mind has gone astray

Taken by the melody he’s walking by the sea

Caring all the time for the changing of the tide

Till that moment in the music when its suddenly lost its way

Confronting loss when everything’s a path that leads away

New moons will wax and wane and tides will ebb and flow

That’s not how love doth intermesh and permeate a soul

Which wanders off and leaves you alone with just her name

How love can never leave you music makes you whole again

Then footsteps on the flagstones sudden silence of the drones

It’s Catcherside the piper played up high there in the stones

Music makes you whole again cheers departing souls

Memory entertains again music starts anew

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

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