Years of My Life

I can hear you call over the ocean
I know you want me to come ashore
And when the fish ain't bite leave the wailers out of sight
Just take that dory home
For the year it's bound to grow

She said now watch the wind over your shoulder
Winter's coming soon will bring the cold
Kagan knew this too well 40 years on the swell
Though cold never gave him a fright
He knew this year it could take his life

And while you wait for me on the corner
But you know I always turned to the tide
When I need to be free I'll escape to the lee
Set my sails northeast for the light
They'll take years off my life

Well Kagan he read the weather wrong
And the wind it swept out southeast
'Said I'm not afraid of you wind 'less I can't find that old ledge
So he turned on a run to the North
But the wind it watched his course

Well a gust ripped right through his mainsail
He put is oars in and shouted towards through the breeze
With the dory adrift he could not find now the ledge
Calling out here for his wife
Only the wind could hear him cry

While you wait for me on the corner
But you know I always turn to the tide
When I need to be free I'll escape to the lee
Set my sails northeast for the light
They'll take years off my life

Well the snow it fell heavy on that halocline
The sail was no use but to keep him warm
Though not afraid of the cold fleeting thoughts turned to home
His wife there biding her time
She knew he was gone this time

And when the waves wash over your shoulders
And the way you move makes me cry
Kagan said to the wind take me now my old friend
Cause she knows down deep inside
I've no more years of my life

And now she waits for me on the corner
But she knows I come and go with the tide
Take my hand through the wind I won't see her again
I've no more years of my life