XTC - Mermaid Smiled lyrics

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From pools of xylophone clear<br>From caves of memory<br>I saw the children at heart<br>That we once used to be<br>Borne on foaming seahorse herd<br>Compose with trumpeting shell<br>From lines across their hands<br>A song as new as new moon<br>As old as all the sands<br>Shrank to stagnant from atlantic wild<br>Lost that child 'til mermaid<br>Smiled<br><br>Summoned by drum rolling surf<br>As laughing fish compel<br>The young boy woken in me<br>By clanging diving bell<br>Breakers pillow fight the shore<br>She wriggles free in the tide<br>I'm locked in adult land<br>Back in the mirror she slides<br>Waving with comb in hand<br>I was lucky to remain beguiled<br>Grown to child since mermaid<br>Smiled