Before The Beach Lyrics - 1993
By: jimmy buffett
1970
As large as life she stood there
Kissed my cheek and called my old nickname
And though several years had passed
Both of us still looked quite the same
I said hi relaxed a bit
Then asked her how she'd been all these years
She told me she was feeling fine
Came to see a friend who lived up here
Told me she had finished school
And then went on to college for a year
I asked if she had married
Slowly down her cheek there came a tear
She said just an itchy eye
It must be the weather way up here
Told her i can't stand the cold
It freezes me and i can't feel my ears
We talked a bit about mobile
And thought about how it has never changed
I told her i was a comin' home
To spend some time and hoped it wouldn't rain
She asked if she could see me then
And we could spend some time now and then
Because i lived so far away
Was still no chance why we could not be friends
I drove her to the waiting plane
Watched that big jet streaking through the sky
Thought about the sad young girl
And the time that i just saw her cry
That flame must still be burning bright
I think i'll catch a later flight today
It's time for me to go on home
And spend a day or two down by the bay
