Colored Lights (From "The Rink")

I was sitting on a sand dune in Santa Cruz

Or Monterey, well, anyway

I could feel the trickle on my cheek of ocean spray

A perfect day, well, anyway

I remember how I turned to Sam and said

Or was it Fred? Well, anyway

"I should be up and yet I'm down instead

Something's missing, Sam

Something's missing, Fred

Something's missing here"

Where are my colored lights?

Beads and bleachers and colored lights

Passing smiles, round and round

Thumping oom-pah-pah organ sound

Noisy boys, long and lean

Giggles of girls in the mezzanine

Filtered through colored lights

Gold and amber and green

I was sailing out of Long Beach on a catamaran

Or fishing scow, well, anyhow

I was leaning, chewing cashews off the starboard bow

That sunset, wow, well, anyhow

I remember telling Joe, "We God, you're sweet"

Or was it Pete? Well, anyhow

"I wonder why I feel so incomplete

Something's missing, Joe

Something's missing, Pete

Something's missing here"

Where are my colored lights?

Beads and bleachers and colored lights

Passing smiles, round and round

Thumping oom-pah-pah organ sound

Noisy boys, long and lean

Giggles of girls in the mezzanine

Filtered through colored lights

Gold and amber and green

And I tried to find the answer in the friends I made

Or beds I'd share, well, anywhere

But with other people's music ringing in my ear

I couldn't sing, well, anything

And I thought, "If I could just be twelve again"

Or was it ten? Well, anyway

It seems to me I knew the secret then

It's so simple, twelve

It's so simple, ten

It was simple then

Passing smiles, round and round

Thumping oom-pah-pah

Noisy boys, long and lean

Giggles of girls in the mezzanine