The Boy From Rye

Album: Dancing With the Beast (2018)
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  • The boy from Rye came down on the train
    With his parents and his sister
    Where the summer lawns roll down to the sea
    And the air is softer than a whisper

    The girls from school in our summer tans
    Suddenly self conscious and uncertain
    All in a row we arranged ourselves for him
    Waiting to see if we deserved him

    One too fat, one too thin
    One too many flaws to measure
    Impossible to live inside your skin
    And serve at someone else's pleasure

    Our parents dozed after tennis and a swim
    And disappeared into their gin and tonics
    And there we were, alone with him
    His smile knowing and ironic

    One too strong, one too smart
    But none immune to love or summer
    One by one he broke our virgin hearts
    And set us one against the other

    We dreamed of boys and kisses on the lawn
    We yearned to feel that mystery inside us
    And there we were with the summer nearly gone
    We'd let that mystery divide us

    I lost you - you lost me
    So long ago we barely can remember
    And the boy from Rye took the train back home
    And the world moved on into September
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