Deckchairs Folded Like Sleeping Birds

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Out of season, the seafront sleeps
The deckchairs folded like sleeping birds
Striped and silent in a row
Waiting for the warm to come back

I walk along the empty front
With a paper cup of cocoa
The wind has taken all the noise
And left the gulls to say what's left

Sleep now, deckchairs, sleep
The sea is keeping time for you
Dream of sun and children's feet
And sand that's warm and new
Sleep now, deckchairs, sleep
I'll walk the long way home
There's a gentle kind of beauty
In a town left all alone

The tea-room has a candle lit
Behind a steamy windowpane
A woman wipes a single cup
And smiles as if she's heard my name

Sleep now, deckchairs, sleep
The sea is keeping time for you
Dream of sun and children's feet
And sand that's warm and new
Sleep now, deckchairs, sleep
I'll walk the long way home
There's a gentle kind of beauty
In a town left all alone

Come the spring they'll wake and stretch
And open up their painted wings
But tonight the tide is soft
And everything is quiet things

Sleep now, deckchairs, sleep
Sleep now, sleep