Drive along the sea far from the city's twitch and smoke   To a misty beach, that's where my life became a joke   On the dunes, on the dunes, became a joke on the dunes   Where rents are high and seabirds cry, on the dunes      As you spoke you must have known   It was a kind of homicide   I stood and watched my happiness   Drift outwards with the tide   On the dunes, on the dunes, homicide on the dunes   It wasn't fair, it's brutal there on the dunes      Pretty boats sweeping along the shore in the faltering light   Pretty women with their lovers by their sides   It's like an awful dream I have most every night      In the summer all the swells   Join in the search for sun and sand   For me it's just a joyless place where this loneliness began   On the dunes, on the dunes, loneliness on the dunes   I'm pretty tough, but the wind is rough on the dunes      Pretty boats sweeping along the shore in the faltering light   Pretty women with their lovers by their sides   It's like an awful dream I have most every night      In the summer all the swells   Join in the search for sun and sand   For me it's just a joyless place where this loneliness began   On the dunes, on the dunes, loneliness on the dunes   I'm pretty tough, but the wind is rough on the dunes   Up on the dunes