We had plenty of lovers, we put in our time We were anything but blind Just as certain angels of perpetual flight When we met we saw the light This time for sure, this time forever, but it turned to sand Slipping through our hand, as time slipped away She was a stranger, just a stranger, when I awoke and saw her face She moved in for the winter, made a garden in May Summer came and gone, I was gone when she left me There was nothing to leave, swept away on a breeze This time for sure, this time forever, but it turned to sand Slipped right through our hand, as time slipped away She was a stranger when I woke and saw her face
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