Harbor Lights Fade

I met you where the ferries turned With salt upon your summer

hair

The station clock was running fast But we had all the evening

there You laughed and folded up your coat The harbor wind pulled

at your sleeve

I said this town is small in June You said that August

likes to leave

Summer love, don't fade so soon Stay a little in the pale

blue noon

Every train that takes you from my side Leaves your name on

the turning tide Summer love,

come back to me

Like a letter crossed from sea to sea

Your postcard came from Riga rain A corner stamp,

a careful hand You wrote the roofs were red as wine And

ships were sleeping by the strand

I read it by the kitchen light

While swallows crossed the amber sky

The words were warm,

the paper thin Enough to keep July alive

Summer love, don't fade so soon Stay a little in the pale

blue noon Every train that takes you from my side Leaves your

name on the turning tide Summer love,

come back to me Like a letter crossed from sea to sea

If I could hold one hour still

I'd keep the one beside the quay

Your hand in mine,

the last boat call The whole wide world in half past three

But bells keep time and seasons turn

And songs remember more than we do

Summer love, don't fade so soon Stay a little in the pale

blue noon Every train that takes you from my side

Leaves your name on the turning tide Summer love,

come back to me

Like a letter crossed from sea to sea Summer love,

across the foam

Every road I walk still leads you home