Here is the second song that I have written. This is based on a personal story of mine from when I was a young woman traveling in Europe alone. I met Gabriel in London two days before I was returning home and he was kind, loving and an overall good human being. He showed me around London for two days, then let me sleep in his bed while he slept on the couch the night before I headed back to the States. He even took me to Heathrow and waved goodbye as I headed home. Those two days with him are two of my happiest though I never saw him again. A perfect gentleman in every sense of the word.
Here is the song:
Gabriel
Gabriel walks you round the streets of Central London
You can hear Big Ben tolling
You can walk those streets forever.
And you sense that he’s a little homesick
But that’s half of what pulls you to him
And he tells you of Barcelona
And the Church of the Sacred Family
And just when you need to tell him
Your boyfriend’s back home, waiting
His dark eyes stare into you
And he lets the river whisper
That you’ve been waiting for him forever.
And you long to stay there with him
And you long for a new start
And you hope that he will love you
Because you’ve touched his gentle spirit with your heart
And Mary was a virgin
When the angel came to see her
And when she understood the task
That he lay down before her
She said, “I am the handmaid
And will follow as I’m guided
But she could not have imagined
The sorrow that awaited
When she saw her own son dying
On the cross at Golgotha
Humiliated and tortured
A sacrifice to our broken world
And you long to stay there with her
And you long for a new start
And you believe that she will love you
Because you’ve touched her gentle spirit with your heart
Now Gabriel takes you home
To his place in Soho
And he cooks paella and tapas
Like his grandmother back in Spain
And the candles glow like moonlight
On his angel face above you
And he leans down and kisses you
Until your knees are trembling
And he shows you how to feel
Amid the passion and the sorrow
There is sweetness in his sleeping
There are kisses in the morning
All the way to Heathrow
He will hold your hand so tightly
Then Gabriel waves goodbye
And you long to stay there with him
And you long for a new start
And you know that you can love him
Because he’s touched your gentle spirit with his heart
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