Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Mermaid Smiled , by - XTC. Release date: 26.10.1986
Song language: English
Mermaid Smiled |
| From pools of xylophone clear |
| From caves of memory |
| I saw the children at heart |
| That we once used to be |
| Borne on foaming seahorse herd |
| Compose with trumpeting shell |
| From lines across their hands |
| A song as new as new moon |
| As old as all the sands |
| Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild |
| Lost that child 'til mermaid smiled |
| Summoned by drum rolling surf |
| As laughing fish compel |
| The young boy woken in me |
| By clanging diving bell |
| Breakers pillow fight the shore |
| She wriggles free in the tide |
| I’m locked in adult land |
| Back in the mirror she slides |
| Waving with comb in hand |
| I was lucky to remain beguiled |
| Grown to child since mermaid smiled |