West Palm Beach lyrics

I can't get the sand out of my shoes
Being in Florida's done a number on my boots
Just the way the women they walk round here
It's plain to see the sand and sun
Have done a number on me
And the sky is threatening black and grey
And the sea, it is a festering red
You see it in her eyes, she's laid up
She ain't going nowhere
So breakfast again
Postponed, delayed, I won't be fed

The surf has swallowed him up
He's a memory now
The water is warmer
Than it has been for weeks
His grandad lives just down the road
She's making supper for me tonight
She's been nice to me since '73
When her son lost his light
But now his ghost is rising
Above a briny blur
And you would've assumed some maid
Would've made the grade
And his soul captured her
But then he's still a fine kid
After all he did
He's a fan of mine
I wasn't planning to spend
So long in town
But the break in the weather's
Really got my spirits down
She can't get up, she's shotgun
Seems she's sewn to the seat
It's a dirty old trick that I'm yet to lick
And she's yet to beat
And you see it in her eyes
She was born unwise, she was born free
You can see it in his shoes
He was born to lose
He was born like me
And you see it in her eyes
She was born unwise, she was born free