A Day A Way

Lyrics

[Verse 1] We ran away for a day from the city Smiled through the rain as we rode to the sea Left behind all of the tired Sunday faces Happy at last to be just you and me And the traffic was lazy and no one would hurry We thought we would never get by But in time, we were out of the slow city suburbs Onto the road that reached out for the sea [Verse 2] The fields were all battlefields, spattered with trees Like tired tattered scarecrows bent over their knees And the leaves made the litter and covered the land Lost autumn confetti, a patchwork unscanned And the wind scrawled a lane through the stubble And stayed with us all the way down to the shore Where the sea growled before us and spread out her hands As she ploughed through the pebbles to grab at the sand [Verse 3] We ran to the beach with the wittering wind And scrabbled for shells and mysterious things Hurled stones at the waves, fed our feet to the tide She rose up to take us but we leapt aside Then the day had to end, though we wanted to play there forever We wished we could stay And we combed out the spray from our sea tangled hair And left for the city