Grateful Dead - This Time Forever lyrics

We were anything but blind

Just as certain angels of perpetual flight

When we met we saw the light

This time for sure, this time forever, but it turned to sand

Slipping through our hand, as time slipped away

She was a stranger, just a stranger, when I awoke and saw her face

She moved in for the winter, made a garden in May

Summer came and gone, I was gone when she left me

There was nothing to leave, swept away on a breeze

This time for sure, this time forever, but it turned to sand

Slipped right through our hand, as time slipped away