The Green-Gold Girl of the Summer

You would live so fast
'Til your time was past
Lonely runner
With a look so fine
You could turn dark time
Into colour

And a gallant just for a day
'Til the cheers have faded away
To the opium world
Of the green-gold girl of the summer

Do the stars crash down
To the cold hard ground?
Any number
(No one there to stop them falling)
As I watch the light
In the showbiz night
And I wonder
(Do I hear a lost boy call?)

From a windswept place on a hill
I will raise my glass to you still
And the opium world
Of the green-gold girl of the summer

As change follows change
And the west wind drags another ship down
And down

You would live so fast
'Til your time was past
Lonely runner
With a look so fine
You could turn dark time
Into colour

And a gallant just for a day
'Til the cheers have faded away
To the opium world
Of the green-gold girl of the summer
To the opium world
Of the green-gold girl of the summer
To the opium world
Of the green-gold girl...

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