Simon's Song (Footsteps On The Sea)

Footsteps on the sea

nets upon the sand

Seabirds flying free

the sower sows his land

I was only singing songs of billowed sails and sea

Mending nets on yellow sand when my brother said to me:

‘See who walks the shore

yonder by the tree

One who walks so tall

a preacher-man is he’

I was only singing songs of billowed sails and sea

Mending nets on yellow sand when he came up to me

Eyes that bore the sea a thousand ages old

Fixed their gaze on me

a thousand tales were told

Later on the tide came in and washed my nets away

And shadows long heard a fisherman’s song

But my bed it empty lay

Mmm

mmm

mmm

mmm

I was only singing songs of billowed sails and sea

Mending nets on yellow sand when he said: ‘Follow me’.