Beacon's Final Watch

The foghorn moans a lonely note across the gray Atlantic

The stairs are worn from fifty years of climbing up romantic

The government sent papers say they're turning off the flame

But I'll light it one more evening

just to sign my name.

I'm the keeper of the last light,

watching ships sail by

The automation's coming but I'll lift my lamp on high

The ocean's got no mercy and the rocks don't ever sleep

But tonight I'll tend my lighthouse and the promises I keep.

(ooh,

the promises I keep)

The brass is polished shining,

every mirror's clean and true

I've saved a thousand sailors that I never even knew

They'll send a computer to replace this heart of mine

But a screen can't taste the salt spray or feel the warning

sign.

The sunrise comes tomorrow and I'll walk down to the pier My

logbook's full of storms and souls and every kind of fear

I'll leave the key upon the hook,

the lens will turn no more

But I was here when men were brave and ships came to

the shore.

(brave souls to the shore)

I'm the keeper of the last light,

watching ships sail by The automation's coming but I'll lift my lamp

on high

The ocean's got no mercy and the rocks don't ever sleep

But tonight I'll tend my lighthouse and the promises I keep.

The promises I keep. (mmmmm)