the echo of a moment fades away you re beautiful and glowing like a young bride on her wedding day as she walks down the aisle through a veil of precious memories the hands of time are catching up to me so take it slow how quickly we forget i long for long lost summers filled with friends and front porch cigarettes let s sail away on paper ships through skies of dandelion wind forever never coming back again where shadows of the evening come alive there s seven summer maidens waiting holding holy lantern lights they whisper what your future holds and paint your past with rings of smokes your fortune never comes without a price my melancholy queen of make believe she rides a rising emerald wake her water colors serenade the moonlight on the borderline the sunset in the ghost town eyes my scarlet fever wrapped in velveteen she wanders where the dismal people go mysterious and haunting like a silent movie picture show i kissed her once upon a dream her red lips on the silver screen a fallen star that burned out long ago the old man at the highway ribbon s end they say he spent a lifetime chasing rainbows waiting round the bend he hitchhiked on a lightning bolt to ride off where the thunder rolls his tombstone etched with catch me if you can i ve heard the broken bird who learned to fly she s singing at your window when the chariots of dawn arrive the ballerina pirouettes upon an empty hourglass one last dance before we say goodbye the prophet child walks between the rain the sentimental bashful poets drowning in the alleyway the curtains of his mind unfold spins his sorrow into gold hides behind uncertain shades of gray he takes the roulette wheel to nowhere bound she strikes another match and trades a last glance with her one horse town a tattered romance on the road with empty pockets full of gold to cash in when the final deal goes down but maybe we can turn the world around