The song title “Malahat Moon” came to me many years ago when I was driving on the Malahat and a friend and I stopped at the top to watch the moonlight on the water in the Saanich Inlet. It struck me that there is a special magic in moonlight; the way it dances on the water. It looked like diamonds! I filed that title away in my mind and it wasn’t until many years later when the lyrics and the music came to me, literally, in a dream. I woke up and found myself humming the tune I had just heard in my dream. I got up and wrote down the first verse. The idea of magic in both moonlight and music was enhanced for me by the beauty of the place where we live, here, next to the Saanich Inlet. It is amazing to me that the special magic in beautiful natural places, moonlight and music and can re-connect us to feelings and memories that may have become lost in the passage of time. I hope you enjoy this song and that it re-kindles some forgotten spark for you all. Thanks for listening!
Song Lyrics
Malahat Moon
He’d been driving in the rain, on the long haul out of Georgia
On a lonely stretch of highway, where the dark is thick as dreams
He reached down to search the static, for some tune to keep him goin’
As the moonlight danced upon the cab, behind the headlight beams
His hand froze on the dial, as the crackle turned to music
And the memories flooded back, another road another time
Carried to a distant place, on a mountain by an ocean
On a blanket where that song was shared with a love so warm and fine
CHORUS
All the way to the top of the lookout on the mountain
To a secret place, on a rocky face, on the warmest night in June
Where the moonlight on the ocean, made a pathway filled with diamonds
That carried all the love they pledged to the Malahat Moon
Ain’t it funny how sometimes, the past you’d once forgotten
Is awakened by the moonlight or the magic in a song
And old feelings like old memories come back like they’d never left you
And your busy life is taken back, where once your heart belonged …..chorus
The laundry and the bills and the crying of and infant
Lay forgotten for the moment as the music made her smile
She was taken to a place, where her heart lived in her memories
To a blanket in the moonlight and the sparkle in his eyes