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It’s been a strange lifetime
With many a twist and turning
Seas I never should’ve sailed
Lessons so late in the learning
Captain of my choices
Utter culpability
As to their consequences
No one to blame but me
And of the seven deadly
Three still seek my ruination
Sloth and lust and gluttony
Each conspiring in collusion
Fatigued by malediction
My soul does activate
A homing device intrinsic
Sonar instinct innate
Homesick, so homesick
Destined for a one-way trip
Rescued from a sinking ship
Homesick, this wistful valediction
Take me Lord with the ones I love
You alone assuage this homesickness
A comic tragic figure
Of a cautionary tale
Blundering, bumbling, blithering, bungling
Fiasco on an epic scale
Thus friends have come and gone
Family has disavowed
Heart benumbed, put on pause
Lost love one day to be found
Lily on the altar
Piercing my soul
Smile that slays, eyes that imply
What would have all been yours
Waved as I drove past
Opportunity squandered
A rearview backwards glance
Read the room too late as always
Homesick, so homesick
Leery of their sales pitch
Weary of the bait and switch
Homesick, this wistful valediction
Take me Lord with the ones I love
You alone assuage this homesickness
There is a window of joy
To be through with this world
To bear the stigma of His cross
Though the loss is real
Woe to those at ease in Zion
Dependent on amusement
The author of confusion
Deception and delusion
Sojourners passing, fleeting
Don’t dig your roots too deeply
Here we have no continuing city
It’s the one to come we are seeking
Awaiting the city which has foundations
Whose builder and maker is God
We desire a better, a heavenly country
For He has prepared a place for us
Homesick, so homesick
Foreigners that don’t belong
Evacuation soon to come
Homesick, this wistful valediction
Take me Lord with the ones I love
You alone assuage this homesickness
Grieving what could have been
But it just wasn’t in the cards
Letting go, laying hold of things unseen
Yet I still just cannot seem to let down this guard
Or breach the wall that surrounds this heart
This heart
Homesick, so homesick
As it was in Noah’s day
Doomed to this benighted age
Homesick, this wistful valediction
Take me Lord with the ones I love
You alone assuage this homesickness
You alone assuage this homesickness.
2025 seanosongs
Shaun Weber: acoustic lead (Port Coquitlam BC)
John 15:19
Hebrews 11:10, 13-16; 13:14
1 Peter 2:11
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