Beautiful Now

I saw a picture of you today taken years before I found you you wore a tangerine beret the lights of angels played around you hair tumbling long like waves and breaking on your brow you were beautiful then, sweet angel you're way more beautiful now Your kiss was like the morning dew your lips were soft and wet a fateful breeze was blowing through the desert when we met danger closed around us we made it through somehow you were beautiful then, sweet angel you're way more beautiful now Look down the carousel of years and darling there you are a dancer crying salty tears a vagabond, a star the slayer of mediocrity of every sacred cow you were beautiful then, sweet angel you're way more beautiful now By water's edge a spirit dances just beyond my reach from beach to promenade and back from promenade to beach a ghost of golden hair, a ghost of silver jeans the slender fleeting phantom, of you at seventeen From deep of sleep I wake at dawn but as I wake I find a distant wave still breaking on the west coast of my mind time casts its grand illusion such glimpses we're allowed you were beautiful then, sweet angel you're way more beautiful now I'm gonna wrap my love around you