[Verse 1] Yellow dress and a borrowed afternoon Straw hat tilted to the left Barefoot standing where the water meets the sand Holding summer to her chest The little waves come in and pull away again Like they're trying to decide She watches them the way she watches everything now From somewhere just inside [Pre-Chorus] She used to run straight in without a thought She used to not care how she looked Now she stands here at the edge of it all Reading a page she hasn't finished in her book [Chorus] Oh the yellow dress is spinning In the wind off of the sea And she's something in between What she was and what she'll be Barefoot in the shallows Sun hat, summer sky Old enough to feel it ending Young enough to wonder why She stands there at the waterline Where the going meets the stay In her yellow dress On a blue and golden day [Verse 2] She used to build the castles right down to the moat Used to not mind getting wet Now she notices the way the light falls on the waves And feels things she can't quite name yet Her mother calls from somewhere back along the shore She doesn't answer straight away Just lets the water cool her feet one moment more Before it all becomes today [Pre-Chorus] She used to run straight in without a thought She used to not care how she looked Now she stands here at the edge of it all Reading a page she hasn't finished in her book [Chorus] Oh the yellow dress is spinning In the wind off of the sea And she's something in between What she was and what she'll be Barefoot in the shallows Sun hat, summer sky Old enough to feel it ending Young enough to wonder why She stands there at the waterline Where the going meets the stay In her yellow dress On a blue and golden day [Bridge] This is the last of the summers That feel like they always were Before the world gets complicated And everything starts to blur She doesn't know that yet And maybe that's the grace The way she stands there unaware Of time upon her face Just the water and the yellow Just the hat and the wide open sky Just a girl at the edge of everything Watching the world go by [Final Chorus] Oh the yellow dress is spinning In the wind off of the sea And she's something in between What she was and what she'll be Barefoot in the shallows One last golden summer Old enough to feel it ending Young enough to still wonder She stands there at the waterline Where the going meets the stay In her yellow dress On a blue and golden day On a blue and golden day On a blue And golden Day
