Al Stewart Sand In Your Shoes Lyrics

Sand In Your Shoes Lyrics

You always were a city kid

Though you were country raised

And back in some forgotten time

We shared the cold north days



But the simple life was not your style

And you just had to escape

So it's goodbye to my lady of the islands



On Remembrance Day the bands all played

The bells pealed through the park

And you lay there by the "Do Not" signs

And shamed them with your spark



Now, winter moans in old men's bones

As the day falls into dark

And it's goodbye to my lady of the islands



It was just like this behind

The kisses you so soon swept away

I've always knew that some day

You'd be bound to just get pulled away



The summer sun beats on and on

The shops swim in the heat

And you're standin' by the traffic signs

With taxis at your feet



Well, I know that in your city skin

You're feeling more complete

So it's goodbye to my lady of the islands



No, I never got the letters

That you said, you'd send to me

So it's goodbye to my lady of the islands