| Followed you down to the beach tonight | |
| Wearing two coats but nothing besides | |
| Forget that we're away from home | |
| Pretend we've got a beach of our own | |
| Always before but never again | |
| In the tall white grass where we ran and slept | |
| I lost my head but the ideas came | |
| Sweating out words like a fevered game | |
| And now that seems it was lost in time | |
| But those two years he was a friend of mine | |
| Summer's so long and it's running away | |
| I lost my chain in the river that day | |
| Watched that fire in the silent dark | |
| I found you crying in the back of your car | |
| In the small hours while the embers glowed | |
| And the light showed drops on the blanket fold | |
| I let you rest from your tired life | |
| Carving that soil with your daddy's knife | |
| And now that seems it was lost in time | |
| Those two years he was a friend of mine | |
| Followed you down to the beach tonight | |
| Followed you down to the beach tonight | |
| Followed you down to the beach tonight |