We had plenty of lovers, we put in our time    We were anything but blind    Just as certain angels of perpetual flight    When we met we saw the light    This time for sure, this time forever, but it turned to sand    Slipping through our hand, as time slipped away   She was a stranger, just a stranger, when I awoke and saw her face    She moved in for the winter, made a garden in May    Summer came and gone, I was gone when she left me    There was nothing to leave, swept away on a breeze    This time for sure, this time forever, but it turned to sand    Slipped right through our hand, as time slipped away    She was a stranger when I woke and saw her face