MY SUMMER SONG IN WINTERTIME

Though my home I've not forgotten
I can't hold her in my arms
She's there inside my dreams at night
In my daydreams, and my thoughts

On the shortest days of winter
I remember summer streets
Buzzing with electricity
Kids out howling in the heat

If I had the strength to carry her
I'd never put her down
I'd float inside the nighttime sea
She'd tip her starry crown

Coyote calls the pale new moon
The ice holds still the bay
The laughing gulls call in the dusk
And I lie here awake

I can hear the killing moon
She's calling out to me
I wake up and I'm on the beach
Walking in my sleep

The winter sky is still tonight
The wind holds in her breath
I listen to the ocean breath
A song my heart has kept

Summer is a memory
Like a song, I let it play
Every time the moon is new
And I lie here awake

The world was just beginning
We caught heaven in the heat
On the boulevard, the cars rushing by
It felt like we were free

Capricorn is rising
Across the eastern sky
The night calls me to wander
An old song makes me cry

My island, she's so far tonight
The stars begin to fade
"Ol' 55" is playing
I listen to Tom Waits

He sings about the old days
The days of roses, long gone by
Every time I hear those songs
The ocean fills my eyes

She tips her starry crown tonight
The dark sea, and her charms
I listen to her breath tonight
My summer song in wintertime.