The music takes me back
To happy times and places
I hear the notes and they transform
To old familiar faces
The words are in my memory
Enshrined forever more
I sing them in my dreams
I speak them in my lore
The music wraps around me
And takes me to my home
I’m lifted in a starry sky
Where I may ever roam
I’m lost in thoughts of yesterday
Of places I have seen
Those thoughts are sometimes foggy
But I know just what they mean
They are feelings that engulf me
And will not let me go
They hold me and caress me
As they rock me to and fro
The lullaby my father sang
A sweet and calm refrain
I see him sitting by my bed
His loving face the same
My mother singing as she sewed
A brand new dress for me
Lost in ruffles, hems and folds
She stitched so lovingly
The songs of Christmas in our church
The sounds, the smells alive
With hymns of old that filled my mind
When I was only five
The songs of adolescence
That I danced to in my youth
They seem a little dated now
If I should speak the truth
The wedding song that I adored
A special one for me
He and I were one that day
How happy we would be
Our children came, first one then two
Within a span of years
Their babbling and cooing
Was sweet music to my ears
So much music followed
Each precious life event
That made me truly grateful
For a life that seemed well spent
And as the music plays now
And I hear the final beat
I feel its warmth and comfort
That has made my life complete