Lyrics XTC – Mermaid Smiled
Text:
From pools of xylophone clear
From caves of memory
I saw the children at heart
That we once used to be
Borne on foaming seahorse herd
Compose with trumpeting shell
From lines across their hands
A song as new as new moon
As old as all the sands
Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild
Lost that child ’til mermaid
Smiled
Compose with trumpeting shell
From lines across their hands
A song as new as new moon
As old as all the sands
Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild
Lost that child ’til mermaid
Smiled
Summoned by drum rolling surf
As laughing fish compel
The young boy woken in me
By clanging diving bell
Breakers pillow fight the shore
She wriggles free in the tide
I’m locked in adult land
Back in the mirror she slides
Waving with comb in hand
I was lucky to remain beguiled
Grown to child since mermaid
Smiled
Album
XTC – XTC - Skylarking
XTC – Dear God
XTC – Sacrifical Bonfire
XTC – Dying
XTC – The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
XTC – Mermaid Smiled
XTC – Another Satellite
XTC – Big Day
XTC – Earn Enough For Us
XTC – Season Cycle
XTC – 1000 Umbrellas
XTC – Ballet For A Rainy Day
XTC – That’s Really Super, Supergirl
XTC – The Meeting Place
XTC – Grass
XTC – Summer’s Cauldron