We all have stories, these are mine. I tell them with a heart full of love and through eyes of kindness.

Anchor of Stars (a song)

The heart is not written down on any map; true places never are.

Wolfinwool · Anchor of Stars

[Intro 20 seconds]

Verse 1
Saint Elmo’s fire on the mast,
Storm winds rise, blowing fast.
We stand our ground, we stay,
Hold true till break of day.

Chorus
No tomorrow, no past remains,
Only her voice in the wind and rain.
Love is the tide, the helm, the flame,
And I sail by her name.

Verse 2
Mighty keel below me lies,
Silent strength that never dies.
No man cheers her, none recall,
Still she bears it, through it all.

Chorus
No tomorrow, no past remains,
Only her voice in the wind and rain.
Love is the tide, the helm, the flame,
And I sail by her name.

Verse 3
Plank by plank, her frame is bound,
silent walls where love resounds.
Called by none, yet fierce and true,
she shelters all the ocean’s blue.

Chorus
No tomorrow, no past remains,
Only her voice in the wind and rain.
Love is the tide, the helm, the flame,
And I sail by her name.

Verse 4
Saint Elmo’s tide, carry me forth,
Through the storm, through eternity.
Singing of love keeping us near,
Love that silences all the fear.

Chorus
No tomorrow, no past remains,
Only her voice in the wind and rain.
Love is the tide, the helm, the flame,
And I sail by her name.

Writing and producing these songs is like a drug. Look, I know they aren't very good in the big scheme of things, but you have to understand: I'm no musician. I have a very nice piano and I can find middle c, I know some very basic chords. But never in a million years could i sit down and score and sing a song in a day. Well, I guess in a million years I could. But I am most definitely a decade away from any manner of proficiency. AI is letting me cheat HARD.

And it's a hell of a thrill.

This was SUPPOSED to be a sea-chanty version of A Soldier's Job. But being able to write lyrics and being able to write the RIGHT lyrics is vast chasm. Even for Anchor of Stars, these aren't very good. They are serviceable, but not impressive.

I STILL want to write a sea chanty along the lines of Nathan Evans. He blows me away.

So Anchor of Stars went from rousing chant for the crew to work, to a prog-rocky ballad that's part ode to sailing vessels and part longing declaration to make it home through the storm.

Where the heart is.

Love always,

Wolf.

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