The Spirit of Love

 

How many hours have I been out on the road?

Did I pass the last gas station out of Tucson?

Goodbye southern California, here I come Gulf of Mexico

I’ll be there just as fast as this old car can go

 

Because the spirit of love came calling me

The spirit of love

Oh-oh, the spirit of love

 

I am on a pilgrimage to Galveston to see

A woman there who doesn’t even know my name

But she will meet me sure as summer come the second day in May

When we will end our solitude and years of yearning

 

Because the spirit of love came calling me

The spirit of love

Oh-oh, the spirit of love

Came calling me, unmistakably

To make sure that we would fall in love

 

A short one thousand miles before I turn onto the shore

Upon the island in the gulf where I was born

I traveled halfway around a world in search of someone I could love

When she was living in my very own backyard

 

Until the spirit of love came calling me

The spirit of love

Oh-oh, the spirit of love

 

I shall always love my one true love

 

© 1980. Billy Marabella.

NOTES ON THIS SONG
I was married once, for four and a half years. This song is how I proposed. Back then, I didn’t have much more than this song to offer her. Now, all these years later, I am grateful that I was able to give her this little something that would be between us for as long we both shall live. I am sorry I was a lousy husband.