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  1. Faded Beauty

From the recording The Ruins of Our Age

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First-place lyric winner of the Unisong International Song Contest

Lyrics

Faded Beauty
© 2003 Michael R. J. Roth

I saw her in the window seat
On the plane from Wichita,
Gazing out on golden fields.
I know that isn’t what she saw.
I know that isn’t what she saw.

She sat there in her faded beauty,
Skin soft as a sandy dune,
Silver glimmer on her lips,
As if she had kissed the moon,
As if she had kissed the moon.

Chorus:
Faded beauty,
The clouds are marching through the skies
Like wedding dresses on young brides
Above the tattered flag of countryside.

She was wearing diamond earrings,
Leather coat with ermine trim,
Mementos of a love she lost.
It’s all that she has left of him,
All that she has left of him.

It was on election day,
The halls were filled with groans and sighs
And choices made and thrown away
Between the promises and lies,
Between the promises and lies.

(Chorus)