.....Act Two... the tide rolls in....



They said "We'll take you down to Saie Harbour
oh there's nothing there but sea and sand.
There are no candy stalls, no amusement halls
but there's something there you'll understand"...
And in my mind again, I hear you call my name....
then take my hand and lead me down the winding lane
down to the bay....

CHORUS:
As the sunlight breaks between the leaves
and it hangs in ribbons from the trees...
in the last hours of a summer afternoon,
I let my memory stray along the road to Saie...
and I wait by the bay - for you....


End of Chorus


We watched the coast of France, beyond the water
dance in the heat-haze - I see it still...
Our words are like a part I've come to know by heart
as I replay each scene at will....
Act One - the pebbles skim.... Act Two - the tide rolls in....
and then the film stops, the reel spins free
and you're gone again..... oh you're gone again.

CHORUS:
As the sunlight breaks between the leaves
and it hangs in ribbons from the trees...
in the last hours of a summer afternoon,
I let my memory stray along the road to Saie...
and I wait by the bay - for you....


End of Chorus


Now the Island she calls me like a long-lost lover
or sometimes a mother for her straying child
and I must come flying where seagulls crying
are the only answer to a heart grown wild.
And I neither know, nor care, if people stop and stare
when I run to meet you, greet you, laughing to the air
because you're waiting there....

CHORUS:
As the sunlight breaks between the leaves
and it hangs in ribbons from the trees...
in the last hours of a summer afternoon,
I let my memory stray along the road to Saie...
and I wait by the bay - for you....


Lyrics & Music: © Rosie Hardman 1974


Act Two - the tide rolls in...


Recorded on 'Jerseyburger':
Alida Star Records. ASC 7754.


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