As an invitation from heaven

You’re curled on a chair by the open window

The sun lights up your skin and you say,

‘Maybe its all by chance,’

This grace that burns from within

We can feel it in her song

We are looking out through this open window,

The foaming waves breathe on us

We think and wonder

What lies beneath the sea?

We are with the sea

Are waiting, dissolving

We are free

From the shackles of misused time

Hear the cry of a plea

And it seems as though it will rain any moment

The wind draws tears from our eyes,

And we know

These reflections will haunt our everyday

Reflections will haunt us while we sleep

She is building foundations

Between honesty and dreams

Enter this House of Changes

Till we are swimming through the deep

She is trying to see how to set us all free

Digging deep, deeper still

She is trying to see how to set us all free

Till we are swimming through the deep

She’s a prophet and saint and sinner all the same

We are living in her dream

So fine, fine fine to be

‘Come and help me if you can’

When its over

Come back nigh

Find your way

Oh across the ocean

Find your way

And come back home

Find your way

With your fountain of dreams

This grace that burns from within

We can feel it in your song

 

 A warm welcome for

               Elizabeth Ryder

Elizabeth Ryder