Mermaid Smiled-XTC

[ti:Mermaid Smiled (2001 Digital Remaster)] [ar:XTC] [al:Skylarking] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mermaid Smiled (2001 Digital Remaster) - XTC [00:22.20]From pools of xylophone clear [00:24.61] [00:25.61]From caves of memory [00:27.73] [00:28.91]I saw the children at heart [00:31.79] [00:32.29]That we once used to be [00:34.76] [00:35.62]Borne on foaming seahorse herd [00:40.80] [00:42.43]Compose with trumpeting shell [00:44.95] [00:45.80]From lines across their hands [00:48.59] [00:49.17]A song as new as new moon [00:52.63]As old as all the sands [00:55.35] [00:55.88]Shrank to stagnant from [00:58.97]Atlantic wild [01:02.59]Lost that child 'til [01:05.98]Mermaid [01:09.58] [01:14.55]Smiled [01:17.17] [01:25.00]Summoned by drum rolling surf [01:28.13]As laughing fish compel [01:30.80] [01:31.50]The young boy woken in me [01:34.91]By clanging diving bell [01:37.89]Breakers pillow fight the shore [01:43.29] [01:45.03]She wriggles free in the tide [01:48.45]I'm locked in adult land [01:51.79]Back in the mirror she slides [01:55.22]Waving with comb in hand [01:57.87] [01:58.62]I was lucky to remain beguiled [02:05.20]Grown to child since [02:08.55]Mermaid [02:12.15] [02:17.04]Smiled