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   The Reach       
Performed By Rob Sterling                
                  Of                                      
   "The Innocent Agers"                    

It's Maine, and it's Autumn, the birches have just begun turning 
It's life and it's dying The lobstermen's boats come returning 
With the catch of the day in their holds 
And the young boy is cold and complaining 
The fog meets the beaches and out on The Reach it is raining 

It's father and son, it's the way it's been done since the old days 
It's hauling by hand ten miles out from the land where their chow waits 
And the days are all lonely and long 
And the seas grow so stormy and strong but
The Reach will sing welcome as homeward they hurry along 

And the morning will blow away as the waves crash and fall 
And The Reach like a siren sings as she beckons and calls 
As the coastline recedes from view and the seas swell and roll 
I will take from The Reach all that she has to teach to the depths of my soul 

The wind brings a chill, there's a frost on the sill in the morning 
It creeps through the door On the edge of the shore ice is forming 
Soon the northers will bluster and blow 
And the woods will be whitened with snowfall 
And the Reach will lie frozen for the lost and un-chosen to row 

And the morning will blow away as the waves crash and fall 
And the Reach like a siren sings as she beckons and calls 
As the coastline recedes from view and the seas swell and roll 
I will take from the Reach all that she has to teach to the depths of my soul 

~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~