Reach Haven Postcard

This song is on Dan Fogelberg's "Full Circle" Album/CD released May 2003-I bought the CD when it first came out and it wore out so I bought it again
Dan Fogelberg - all guitars (electric, acoustic, lead, rhythm, and otherwise), mandolin, bass, piano, keyboards, percussion, lead and background vocals
Dan played all the instruments on this album. The "session players" were his little joke
Roland Laboite - drums, percussion - the drum machine Dan used was made by Roland Corporation. La boite is French for “the box.”
Donny Trout/bass: Trout. Bass
Sven Birkebeiner/keyboards: Skiers call their skis "boards". Dan was proud of his Swedish ancestry (Swedish from his dad, Scottish form his mom) and loved Nordic history
As a Nordic skier himself, Dan especially liked the story of the Birkebeiner soldiers who skied young Prince Haakon from Lillehammer to Østerdalen during the winter of 1206
helping to end many years of civil war Sven-Åke Lundbäck and Sven Utterström were two great Swedish Nordic racers
Lee Mealone/percussion: a reference to Dan’s reputation for being a recluse: Leave me alone
On July 1,2003 I saw Dan Fogelberg and his band perform this song in concert which was his final tour "The Full Circle" tour at Humphreys by the Bay in San Diego, California

The first breath of autumn
blows through the trees
And the nights are getting long
and growing colder
And the maples are turning
and the fields have gone brown
And the waves against the shore
make such a sad sound

Now there’s a meal on the table
and a fire in the stove
And a candle burning brightly
by the stairway
And a lamp in the window
that shines out to sea
And I wish so much tonight
that you were here with me

Now the moon is in danger
of running aground
As she sweeps the tattered clouds
above the island
And the stars lay like diamonds
on the breast of the sea
And I wonder where you are
and if you’re thinking of me

Now I’ve grown so accustomed
To having you near
And I miss you so madly
When you are not here
When I think how you love me
Oh, it brings me to tears
And wish so much tonight
that you were here with me
Oh, I wish so much tonight
that you were here with me

Well I dropped you a postcard
today in the mail
With a picture of a sailing ship upon it
And I tried to say something
that was clever and clear
But the only thing I wrote was that
“I wish you were here”

Now I’ve grown so accustomed
To having you near
And I miss you so madly
When you are not here
When I think how you love me
Oh, it brings me to tears
And wish so much tonight
that you were here with me
Oh, I wish so much tonight
that you were here with me

~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~

Background Image
Taken While I Was
In The U.S. NAVY
 On The Island Of
   Diego Garcia In
The Indian Ocean in 1980
     (Text Added by me)
    Brett Martin Smith