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Constance waits by window glass
Watching ships and sailors pass
Barnaby turns the beacon bright
While she keeps the home alight
Mending nets and salting fish
Every day is the same old wish
Ships return but he stays here
Married to his beacon's fear
Turn the light and guide them home
While she's left here all alone
In this town we'll lay our fate
She's the lighthouse keeper's wife
Living half a sailor's life
Every beam that cuts the dark
Guides the ships but breaks her heart
In this isolated life
Tea for two but drinking one
Watching every setting sun
Letters written never sent
To the husband heaven sent
Does she love the man or tower?
Growing older by the hour?
Would she choose a different shore
If she had the choice once more?
She's the lighthouse keeper's wife
Living half a sailor's life
Though the beacon calls him away
She'll be here another day
Sharing his devoted life
The light goes out at break of day
But love's beacon lights the way