Mermaid Smiled

[Verse 1] 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 [Chorus] Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild Lost that child 'til mermaid smiled [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] I was lucky to remain beguiled Grown to child since mermaid smiled