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I once met a girl with the life in her hands
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and we lay together on the summerday sands.
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I gave her my raincoat and told her, ``Lady, be
good!''
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And we made truth together, where no one else
would.
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I smiled through her fingers and ran the dust
through her hands ---
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the hour-glass of reason on the summerday sands.
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We sat as the sea caught fire.
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Waited as the flames grew higher
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in her eyes.
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We watched the eagle born ---
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wings clipped, tail feathers shorn
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but we saw him rise ---
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over summerday sands.
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Came the ten o'clock curfew.
She said, ``I must start my car.
I'm staying with someone I met last night in a
bar.''
I called from my wave top ---
``At least tell me your name!''
She smiled from her wheelspin
and said, ``It's all the same.''
I thought for a minute, jumped back on dry land ---
left one set of footprints on the summerday sands.
I once met a girl with the life in her hands
and we lied together on the summerday sands.
words and music by Ian Anderson