She smiled in a big way, the way a girl like that smiles  When the world is hers and she held your eyes  Out in the breezeway down by the shore in the lazy summer  And she pulled you in, and she bit your lip, and she made you hers  She looked deep into you as you lay together quiet in the grasp of dusk and summer    But you've already lost  When you only had barely enough to hang on    And she combed your hair, and she kissed your teeth  And she made you better than you'd been before  She told you bad things you wished you could change in the lazy summer  And she told you, laughing down to her core, so she would not cry as she lay in your lap  She said "nobody here can live forever, quiet in the grasp of dusk and summer"    But you've already lost  When you only had barely enough to hang on    She said, "no one is alone the way you are alone"  And you held her looser than you would have if you ever could have known  Some things tie your life together, slender threads and things to treasure  Days like that should last and last and last    But you've already lost  When you only had barely enough of her to hang on