(原詩)

Are you still in control
Of the boat that you row
Or do you still cling to me
When its sinking
I never condemned you,
I only consoled you
When candlelight made me a King

For the wide-eyed and laughing
Passed like a season,
Erasing a passion to sin
For no one knew better
Than the tea leaves and the tarots
That the wide-eyed and laughing
Were just one step ahead of the wind

And the hearts that you played
On the porch swing for me
Was a song that I'd heard in the past
For I had an audience
Somewhere inside you
That applauded whenever you laughed

For the wide-eyed and laughing
Passed like a season,
Erasing a passion to sin
For no one knew better
Than the tea leaves and the tarots
That the wide-eyed and laughing
Were just one step ahead of the wind

Gone is a word that I now rarely use
Though sometime in the course of a day
I go racing back like a man possessed
By the wide-eyed and laughing
Daughters of some different age