[Verse 1]
Dawn, like an angel, lights on the step
Muting the morning she heralds
Dew on the grass like the tears the night wept
Gone long before the day wears old

[Chorus]
Time stills the singing a child holds so dear
And I'm just beginning to hear
Gone are the pathways the child followed home
Gone like the sand and the foam

[Verse 2]
Pressed in the pages of some aging text
Lies an old lily a-crumblin'
Marking a moment of childish respects
Long since betrayed and forgotten

[Chorus]
Time stills the singing a child holds so dear
And I'm just beginning to hear
Gone are the pathways the child followed home
Gone like the sand and the foam

[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 1]
Dawn, like an angel, lights on the step
Muting the morning she heralds
Dew on the grass like the tears the night wept
Gone long before the day wears old

[Chorus]
Time stills the singing a child holds so dear
And I'm just beginning to hear
Gone are the pathways the child followed home
Gone like the sand and the foam

[Outro]
Gone like the sand (Gone like the sand)
Gone like the sand and the foam