To Where Now Do I Safely Steer

Clouds will come, again my darling
And when they do where will you be
I feel a shadow hangs over you and me
The sky is darkening my darling

The road ahead is far from clear
It’s getting darker by the second
By the minute now my darling-dear
To where now do we safely steer.

Oh, I’ve never passed a driving test
I’ve never taken the time
But now I’m like that Ancient Mariner
Who paid a lifetime for his crime?

My heart is a segment a piece of fruit
Yours is an amber locket
But mine now is rotting to the core
Do I navigate by your pendant darling?

You left it on the sideboard
When was it darling you jumped?
And pulled that ripcord
Was it only yesterday; was it.

But it could have been years ago.
As the hearth my heart
Has frozen over with winter snow
—Not fighting, letting you go.

Clouds will come, again my darling
And when they do where will you be
I feel a shadow hangs over you and me
The sky is darkening my darling

The road ahead is far from clear
It’s getting darker, darker by the second dear
By the minute now my darling-dear
To where now do I safely steer.