Robert Wyatt - Sight Of The Wind lyrics

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We could hear it

Before the shutters were open,

The wind on the beach

Then we found

Miniature sand dunes

On the concrete of the balcony

And a dead leaf

Zig zagging,

Scratching an urgent message

In sanskrit

Before hitching a ride

On a frisky gust,

A plastic bag

Caught by a rail

rearing to go,

In such a flap

we see it free

To join a page of last week's news

Racing high

Above the undulating beach,

And the invisible flying sand

Casting a fast moving shadow

Stroking the beach clean.

Yesterday's footprints vanished,

replaced by smooth rippling

Wave formations,

A copy of the sea.

No one walking

Not even the dogs.

A day

For the rubbish to dance.