Moon Song Lyrics - Arlo Guthrie

Beneath this balcony of stars 

Beyond the searchlight stage where we've become 

The stuff of time amid the waves 

Whose nets are cast along the shore when day is done 

As the seabird flies above 

My songs are sung to those I've come to love 

The petals strung into the leis 

The flowering of days I've just begun 

A second chance to grasp a dance 

Beneath the last rays setting of the sun 

Tears along the trail of sand 

Footprints in the water lead me back to who I am 

When gods and goddesses decreed 

The mountains raised up from beneath the seas 

The sound of sovereign thrones 

Above the hand tied bureaucrat who moans 

This crazy love amazes me 

As I just gaze into your eyes 

The liquid sun is split upon the sea 

I wanna be where I can see the moon arise 

A second chance to grasp a dance 

Before the moment fades to summarize 

Tears along the trail of sand 

Footprints in the water lead me back to who I am 

Along the lonely stretch of sand 

Reduced to just a woman and a man 

Bathed in the lunar light 

The likes of which I might just understand 

Among the myths I know are real 

The goddess disguised as herself revealed 

I sang her song out loud 

She sat herself beside me in the crowd 

A second chance to grasp a dance 

Into the moment that she would allow 

Tears along the trail of sand 

Footprints in the water lead me back to who I am