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 tealeaves 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 
 
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