She went out
And found
Her father face down on the ground

Out in the cold

Walked her way 'round

A hill where the sun's sinking down
Into the snow


Oh, white caps of the waves slap
Like last hand claps
And the dark

Water dies in the crash
[And] is sucked back with a moan
Smoke on the coast

And old, piled fathers
Soft-sighing daughters
Where does it go


It's a dream now
I'll describe

Let your mind drift on down
Like so
To when the world was young

Big sky
Blue with a dead
Bachelor's tongue

Blood-red bloom on the rose

So, some line someone told

Says, "Even light can get old"
Oh, slobbering lovers
Drink-clinking brothers

They don't have to tell us
'Cause we know


So, I said
"What a way down
What a ride

What a slide
Spin around
What a life to have known

What a time"

And how

I was singing out in a crowd
Of a thousand of the most frightening faces I've known
When the lighthouse

Lending a sight, finally went out
What a fright we felt in that night
Friends, just shout it all out

All the 'why's and 'no-no's
All the cries in your throat


How right
We felt
With our hands tightly closed

Around something we broke
And then our whimpering sisters
Sobbing well-wishers


Well, it's over
Just let my hand go