Beautiful Now Lyrics

I saw a picture of you today, taken years before I found you
you wore a tangerine beret, the light of angels played around you
hair tumbling long like waves and breaking on your brow
you were beautiful then, sweet angel
you're way more beautiful now
Your kiss was like the morning dew, your lips were soft and wet
a fateful breeze was blowing through the desert when we met
danger closed around us, we made it through somehow
you were beautiful then, sweet angel
you're way more beautiful now

Look down the carousel of years and darling there you are
a dancer crying salty tears, a vagabond, a star
the slayer of mediocrity, of every sacred cow
you were beautiful then, sweet angel,
you're way more beautiful now
by water's edge a spirit dances just beyond my reach
from beach to promenade and back from promenade to beach
a ghost of golden hair, a ghost of silver jeans
the slender fleeting phantom, of you at seventeen
From deep of sleep I wake at dawn but as I wake I find
a distant wave still breaking on the west coast of my mind
time casts its grand illusion, such glimpses we're allowed
you were beautiful then, sweet angel
you're way more beautiful now

I'm gonna wrap my love around you...