back in my arms

If beauty was the measure

And I’m the beholder,

I’d hold her

In my arms once again.

If laughter is the medicine

She’d be my drug

Squeezed in my arms

Once again.

And if I believed in

The kings and queens,

She’d be

My Queen of the May

And June and July

For there she would lie

Back in my arms

Once again.

I’ve spoken to the poets

But they can’t agree

If she’ll ever

Come back to me.

The wind has stopped howling

And the sea’s gone to calm.

Still she’s not

Back in my arms.

If beauty was the measure

And I’m the beholder,

I’d hold her

In my arms once again.

If laughter is the medicine

She’d be my drug

Squeezed in my arms

Once again.

Back in my arms

Once again.

(lyrics by Vin Murtagh ©2011)