Pass-A-Grille Sunset
Pass-A-Grille Sunset
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Pink Palace lobby, five o'clock light
Two glasses sweating, she's laughing just right
Over forty summers and I still lose the thread
When Miss Terry looks over and tilts back her head
Then it's off down the boulevard to Mally-o's Beach House
Where they say, "Captain Johny, Miss Terry — we've got your table"
Candles and grouper and a red wine view
She said, "Captain Johny, you starin'"
I said, "Guilty as charged"
Some men chase the horizon
I just found mine at the bar
Pass-a-Grille sunset, sand still warm on our feet
The Gulf turning copper, the whole town gone sweet
Somebody's ringing that old bronze bell
Ten times, twelve times, fifteen — I can't tell
'Cause I'm lost in her pretty brown hair instead
Pass-a-Grille sunset and Terry by my side
Every single evening, the same golden tide
The sun goes down easy, the bell says goodnight
And I fall for her again, right on time
Paradise Grille, nine hundred Gulf Way
The crowd gets quiet like the end of a play
They pick out a stranger to stand on the sand
Some kid from Ohio with a bell in his hand
And Terry leans in, says, "You'd never get chosen"
I say, "Darlin', I got picked back in Tampa, and I'm frozen"
She rolls her eyes the way that she does
Over forty years later, that's still what love was
Pass-a-Grille sunset, sand still warm on our feet
The Gulf turning copper, the whole town gone sweet
Somebody's ringing that old bronze bell
Ten times, twelve times, fifteen — I can't tell
'Cause I'm watching that golden tan glow instead
Pass-a-Grille sunset and Terry by my side
Every single evening, the same golden tide
The sun goes down easy, the bell says goodnight
And I fall for her again, right on time
I've watched a thousand sunsets from a helm out at sea
Not one of them ever looked back at me
But she does
Lord, she does
Pass-a-Grille sunset, sand still warm on our feet
The Gulf turning copper, the whole town gone sweet
Somebody's ringing that old bronze bell
Ten times, twelve times, fifteen — I can't tell
Terry, take my hand
And we're sailin' home again
And we're sailin' home again
