All Along – Pamela Sackett

I sit here and write a song for you
I think I’ll write it for me too
for me and you, I’ll write a song

I hope the tune will soothe you
don’t need a song to make us blue
and for the words, I’ll ask the birds
to sing the truth

and like the tide is coming in
washing out and washing in the shore—what I’d adore, for me and you

I sit here and write a song for you
I think I’ll write it for me too
it’s what I wanted to do, all along

Thanks to Nalini Lasiewicz for unearthing a cassette
of her recordings of my early songs!