Cliffs

When first we saw it in a misty moon You could call it love at first sight It almost took away our breath Climbing up so very high We thought it would last forever Those were the promises they gave A home is where the heart lives From cradle to the grave We worked so hard all of our lives And found this place down by the sea, Where we could see out all our days In peaceful calm serenity To pass onto our children's children Well for to provide But now those cliffs are crumbling before our very eyes It was when those first cracks appeared After those deep and bitter frosts What we thought was indestructible Was turning into paradise lost Those storms they wore like sandpaper And the sea must have its way, and solid rock can melt away, Should we go or should we stay We worked so hard all of our lives And found this place down by the sea, Where we could see out all our days In peaceful calm serenity To pass onto our children's children Well for to provide But now those cliffs are crumbling before our very eyes Now battered by those winds of time And a world turned on its head As we stumble in the darkness Where warily our footsteps tread Like a false lover now betrayed Our hearts have felt the pain As now we e stand here broken, our struggles all in vain Now we were so much younger then And could take things in our stride Tear out the page and start again And swim against the tide But now the fruit from off the branches lies Upon the ground on which we stand Our rock and our foundation Is slipping through our hands We worked so hard all of our lives And found this place down by the sea, Where we could see out all our days In peaceful calm serenity To pass onto our children's children Well for to provide But now those cliffs are crumbling before our very eyes