Inland Sea Songtext

That summer I fell in love with a video actress So deeply and sweetly it shook my resolve to be faithful to my Marie I was there when they said goodbye near the bay in Wisconsin, Knowing my silence revealed as much as the light on that inland sea Marie gave her the hat she'd worn as a going away gift It would have made her look bad, of course, But it might have saved her skin Like one of those hats that the children wore in that old movie "Exodus" The color of sand on that poor young girl, Unaware of the danger she was in Love's a terrible power, my friend, much greater than humans Yet people still lie on the beach, and some even think it's fun Somehow we survived, of course, and I'll never forget her Burned hands like a baby's reach for the power of the sun