She smiled in a big way, the way a girl like that smiles
When the world is hers, and she held your eyes
Out in the breezeway, down by the shore
In the lazy summer
And she pulled you in, and she bit your lip
And she made you hers
She looked deep into you as you lay together
Quiet in the grasp of dusk and summer
But you've already lost
But you've already lost
But you've already lost
When you only had
Barely enough
To hang on
And she combed your hair, and she kissed your teeth
And she made you better than you'd been before
And told you bad things you wished you could change
In the lazy summer
And she told you laughing down to her core
So she would not cry as she lay in your lap
She said, "Nobody here can live forever
Quiet in the grasp of dusk and summer"
But you've already lost
But you've already lost
But you've already lost
When you only had
Barely enough
To hang on
She said, "No-one is alone the way you are alone"
And you held her looser than you would have if you ever could have known
Some things tie your life together
Slender threads and things to treasure
Days like that should last and last and last
But you've already lost
But you've already lost
But you've already lost
When you only had
Barely enough
Of her to hang on
Hang on
Hang on
Hang on