“Summer of ’77 (Medora Moonlight)”

“She was my home… long gone…”


In the shadow of the Badlands sky,
Where stars would whisper, you and I.
She smiled like dawn across the plains,
And love began with summer rains.

[Verse 2]
A hostess grace, a cook’s worn hands,
Two dreamers drawing wedding plans.
She played the keys, I strummed the chords,
Our hearts in tune, in sweet accord.

[Chorus] 
Now I dream her arms around me tight,
Her laughter floating through the night.
Though decades passed and hearts moved on,
She was my right, I was her wrong.
I let her go, the greatest sin…
And lost the life we could’ve been.


We planned a life beneath God's skies,
But I could not forgive the lie.
Too young to bend, too blind to see,
She changed her heart, not love for me.


She built a life, she found her way,
While I chased ghosts and slipped away.
No arms have held me quite the same,
No love has ever said my name.

[Chorus 2]
Now I dream her arms around me tight,
A moonlit ghost in morning light.
And though I’ve walked through love and flame,
No one else ever knew my name.
I called it off — the deepest sin…
And lost the life we could’ve been.

[Bridge] 
At sixty-nine, I see it clear,
She was my peace when she was near.
But fools let angels slip away,
And live to dream of yesterday.

[Final Chorus] 
So let me dream her one more time,
In Medora’s hush, with stars that shine.
Though I wake with tears again,
She'll always be my might have been.
She loved me true in seventy-seven...
A fleeting taste of earthbound heaven.

[Outro]
“She was my home… long gone…”