Passing Afternoon (Album)

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her Wooden spoons her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms There are things that drift away like our endless numbered days Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made And she's chosen to believe in the hymns her mother sings Sunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leaves there are sailing ships that pass all over bodies in the grass Springtime calls her children 'till she let's them go at last And she's chosen where to be though she's lost her wedding ring Somewhere near her misplaced jar of Bougainvillea seeds There are things we can't recall blind as night that finds us all Winter tucks her children in her fragile china dolls But my hands remember hers rolling 'round the shaded ferns Nake arms her secets still like songs I'd neer learned There are names across the sea only now I do belive Sometimes with the windows closed she'll sit and think of me But she'll mend his tattered clothes and they'll kiss as if the know A baby sleeps in all our bones so scared to be alone