I wrote this song is from the perspective of a father, whose boy fell victim to suicide.
This is an early version with six verses instead of four. It seemed too long, but I don’t think there is a word too many.

The Last Light

By Sperry Hunt

You bowed your head.
You were through.
You’d had enough, but no one knew.
The young are brave.
You held your tongue.
You’d soldier on till it was done.

You packed your bags.
I wish I’d known.
I’d have told you all you took was not your own.
You closed the door.
And walked unseen
To the black ship in the harbor in a dream.

You paid the fare.
The fare was high.
It was everything beneath the sky.
You stepped on board,
I was ashore
Listening for your key inside the door.

The sun shines too in memory.
The night is held away.
The sea will give you back to me,
If only for that day.
I’ll meet you on the lea shore, son.
We’ll speak and wend our way
Before your ship returns for you
In the last light of the day.

You mom, she works.
She naps and whiles.
She is afraid she will betray you with a smile.
In the day
She knows you’re gone.
But the moonlight shows your shadow on the lawn.

In God’s book
It says you’ve sinned
And only The Devil would let you in.
Those words were penned
By some damned hack,
For only a devil would think of that.

I like to think
You’re lost at sea
Searching for your mom and me.
I man the beach
Beneath the caves
Searching for your sail
Above the waves.

[Chorus]
The sun shines too in memory.
The night is held away.
The sea will give you back to me,
If only for the day.
I’ll meet you on the lea shore, son.
We’ll speak and wend our way
Before your ship returns for you
In the last light of our day.