When they said that you were beautiful    I said it there and then   I laid aside all resistance    Forgot to say amen   And when you raised your hands to me    A glow therein I saw   A baby of the morning   Was sleeping    Nature’s law      And it begins to seem like summer’s almost gone   Like the wind that blow the leaves out on the lawn      I determined that I loved you   You determined I am he   Determined both together   We meet our company   And the feathers of the wild dove   Floating to the ground   Gliding through the branches    Spinning slowly round      As we wait in the mountains for the song   That revives what’s been between us all along      In Cannes there was absurdity   In Nice there was the shore   In Monaco there were casinos   In Asia there was war   And the pipers were American   The peaches fresh with cream   People with vibrations   Just wild robots by some stream      And now we grasp imaginary straws   And shuffle through the sea with bright new claws      If what we know can save us   Then it’s time to make the try   Every time they try to make us    Servants of some lie   The children born of bodies   In bold with pattern scheme   It’s a funny, funny world you live in    ‘Til you learn that it’s a dream      Sea serpents are rockage made of clay   Explaining how we were yesterday      Still I said that you were beautiful    I said it there and then   I laid aside resistance    Forgot to say amen   And when you raised your hands to me    A glow therein I see   The childhood of that beauty   Which belongs to you and me      And I realise that summer is never gone   Like the wind that blow the leaves out on the lawn   Out on the lawn   Out on the lawn   On the lawn