Beautiful Now Lyrics - Modern Blues - Waterboys

I saw a picture of you today 

taken years before I found you 

you wore a tangerine beret 

the lights of angels played around you 

hair tumbling long like waves 

and breaking on your brow 

you were beautiful then, sweet angel 

you're way more beautiful now 

Your kiss was like the morning dew 

your lips were soft and wet 

a fateful breeze was blowing through 

the desert when we met 

danger closed around us 

we made it through somehow 

you were beautiful then, sweet angel 

you're way more beautiful now 

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Look down the carousel of years 

and darling there you are 

a dancer crying salty tears 

a vagabond, a star 

the slayer of mediocrity 

of every sacred cow 

you were beautiful then, sweet angel 

you're way more beautiful now 

By water's edge a spirit dances just beyond my reach 

from beach to promenade and back from promenade to beach 

a ghost of golden hair, a ghost of silver jeans 

the slender fleeting phantom, of you at seventeen 

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From deep of sleep I wake at dawn 

but as I wake I find 

a distant wave still breaking on 

the west coast of my mind 

time casts its grand illusion 

such glimpses we're allowed 

you were beautiful then, sweet angel 

you're way more beautiful now 

I'm gonna wrap my love around you