David Heavenor: Music
MY LADY HEADSTRONG
(David Heavenor)
David Heavenor PRS/MCPS
Album: Another Eden
On a visit to the island of Lismore in September 2009 we walked from Richard and Morag Fowler’s Cottage at The Point to Port Ramsay and eventually round the west coast to Castle Coiffin. Named after a Viking prince, the ruins are of a later date and were erected by the MacDougalls of Lorn. One window remains and I imagined a princess waiting in vain for the return of her lover lost at sea. I found out later from Dorothy Livingstone that there is a legend telling of Beothail, the sister of Coiffin, who laments her love who never returns from a distant war.
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The lonely dove, so starved of love
For a sailor lost upon the sea
She walks the floor, then bolts her door
She will not open up to me
My lady headstrong
I’m singing you this song
For keeping your light on
For a sailor who’s long gone
Open up your senses
Cut your defences
I’m changing the lenses
On this telescope you point at me
A gilded sky, the days drift by
No tide will rise to set her free
No shadow runs from a slanting sun
She gathers thorns upon the lee
Her eiderdown in this starlit town
She pulls so tight she cannot breathe
A bed unblessed, a wedding dress
Is hanging shapeless as the sea