St David's Day

I heard songs and sparrows and the echo of a name
Ringing down that silent twilight on Saint David's Day
I was nineteen, she was six months younger, rose and rapture twined
Captured in the magic flashing Spanish mountain's side

All that summer felt it, something's coming down my way
True I moved like magic, rapid, dancing down the day
Then the moment came, visions hit me, silver in the grey
Left me staggering my footsteps
Marveling, amazed
Walking on a rainbow
Down Saint David's Day

Saint David's Day, Saint David's Day
Air linen for the springtime, put those winter clothes away
I found something higher in a soul almost my age
Ringing in the twilight
On Saint David's Day

She got soul in motion, healing in the hands
Late May daughter, home and harbour, fiddle in the band
To the riverside she guides me over
Soldiers clothed in white
Weapons in the water, study set aside

Now I lay me lonely, with the summertime in mind
Trapped in Spanish mountains of the Californian kind
No Atlantic Ocean gonna lead these feet astray
Every echo I will answer to reach my child of May
I will set your sparrows singing
Until Saint David's Day

Saint David's Day, oh lord
Saint David's Day
Air linen for the springtime, put those winter clothes away
I found something higher in a soul almost my age
Ringing in the twilight
In the melody she played
I found a little miracle in a girl not quite my age
Ringing in the twilight
On Saint David's Day
Saint David's Day
Saint David's Day