We Could Laugh - Big Country

Oh how we would run

All around the table

Lost in the summer sun

Catching jars of fables

Finding jewels in the trees

While the doors were growing smaller

Marking time with gifts

Oh how swiftly change positions

We could laugh

We could laugh

We could laugh

I can remember

I can remember

Oh how we would walk

Dragging days before us

Locked in a waltz of keys

As the jailer made his entry

Picking stars from the night

With a reckless indecision

Save a board and dice

For the rain will fall at wrong times

We could laugh

We could laugh

We could laugh

I can remember

I can remember

Colour cards in our eyes

We could dance a thousand hours

Hard without a thought

That such skirts would hang so heavy

In the echo of the wind

We could hear the strident seagulls

All forgetting the time when the grass

Would turn up so quickly

We could laugh

We could laugh

We could laugh

I can remember

I can remember