'More Than the Watchman' | Marty Goetz | 'Nightlight' 1982

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Throwback to 1982 when TBN aired ‘Nightlight.’ It was a ‘Saturday Night Live’ for believers, produced and directed by Todd and Donna (then) Fisher. In this sketch, I am the janitor in a studio in which some ‘punk rockers’ have been playing. Upon their departure, I play my own song, ‘More Than the Watchman’—observed, by chance, by one of the rockers. An encounter ensues with, potentially, eternal consequences. Hopefully, the airing of the show had a similar effect on those who watched it way back when!! As for me, the show marked the beginning AND the end of my late-night television acting career!

This song is one of many featured on our new ‘Singin’ in the Reign (Scrapbook)’ album — available everywhere OCTOBER 15, 2021 http://itunes.apple.com/album/id15871...

The ‘Coronavirus Pandemic’ of 2020…
afforded us something we would not have otherwise had: LOTS of time at home. With the help of our daughter, Misha, we were able to go through boxes of video tapes, cassettes and ‘reel to reel’ recordings that had been sitting in our storage room for decades. The result is an album of songs entitled 'Singin' in the Reign (Scrapbook)'; some songs never released, others in their original piano/vocal form, along with selections from our very first cassette recording, ‘More Than The Watchman’.

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More Than the Watchman
Words & Music by Marty Goetz
© Singin' in the Reign Music

Did I leave you? Did you leave me?
One of us wandered away
But now I need you to answer my plea
Though I don’t know what I’m askin’
And I know even less what I expect you to say, but...

More than the Watchman for the morning
More than the evenin’ for the dawning
I wait for you, I wait for you

By now it’s quite clear I don’t know wrong from right
And on goodness I’m makin’ no claim
But when you are here and we struggle all night
All I know is I can’t let you go ‘til you bless me
And change my name, and.....

More than the Watchman for the morning
More than the evenin’ for the dawning
I wait for you, my soul waits for you

I miss you so much I don’t know what to do
Don’t you know that I love you, must I show you too
Here is my mind for you to read
All I need is your touch, only one, only one

For you’re the only one from whom I need
Forgiveness just one more time
You’re the only one who had to bleed
For my lack of understanding, take me back
Take my hand in your way so sublime, for.....

More than the Watchman for the morning
More than the evenin’ for the dawning
I’m blinkin at the sun, I’m starin’ at the moon!
I wait for you, please come for me soon!