I climbed up the attic stairs, went back in time The perfect opportunity to see the scene of the crime If that's really what it was There, among some postcards of the sea Souvenirs of a vagrant time when everything was yet to be Back then we were living in the Land of Oz I found this photograph Didn't know if I should cry or laugh We were hungry in a different sense Hanging on to our precious innocence But there's a tear in the ghost of your smile In my mind's eye What were we thinking? I hesitate to guess The sun was rising in the east, we were looking west Wouldn't let a single night slip by Without wasting time, chasing shadows in the dark We couldn't have come together, we just had to break apart Never knew the reason why Here it is in black and white For so many years it hasn't seen the light A frozen moment caught in the lens A lost emotion that somehow never ends And there's a tear in the ghost of your smile In my mind's eye Whatever it was that you were then More than a lover, less than a friend The village idiot would sit and wait While someone else was busy planning their escape That's the trace of a tear in the ghost of your smile In my mind's eye In my mind's eye