And if I knew more about fabric nI'd be better able to describe your dressnI just remember it was blue nAnd made you stand out from the restnWe were sitting on a beach somewherenYou had flowers in your hairnThe sun was sinking down into the seanAnd though we must have talked for hoursnI can't remember what was saidnAs all the words I should have used on younKept bouncing 'round my headnYou know I tried so hard to be so coolnTried harder still not to play the foolnSomething told me we were meant to bennBut like all things of flesh and bone nYou had to slip awaynSomehow I wasn't meant to have you thennNot even for a daynI tore my heart and skin out thinking about younSuffered through a life lived without younHoping you'd come back when it was timennAnd it'll be a cold day in AugustnBy the time I know what's going onnAnd while the meantime weighs upon usnI can act like nothing's wrongnAnd I'll just keep spittin' lyrics in the rainnTil the fates say I can see you againnAnd maybe we can make up for lost timennThe problem with my heart is I can't keep the thing in linenI'll spend an afternoon beside you nNot I need to make you minenI wish that there was something I could saynTo make you stay but that's just the waynIt works sometimes and I won't shed no tearsnnAnd it'll be a cold day in August nBy the time I know what's going onnAnd while the meantime weighs upon usnI can act like nothing's wrongnAnd I'll just keep spittin' lyrics in the rainnTil the fates say I can see you againnAnd maybe we can make up for lost timen