This song originally appeared on Windows and Walls (1994). The idea of being taken aback and powerfully moved by the sight of someone you will never meet or speak to is not an original one. In particular, I tend to think of a moment in Citizen Kane when Everett Sloane talks about a woman carrying a white parasol that he saw on a distant ferry. That's definitely the sentiment I'm trying to capture here.
lyrics
Saw her by the riverside
Looking like a blushing bride
And glowing
Eyes as clear as mid-July
Lips still damp from a kiss goodbye
Glowing
She was a lover who was never mine
But I can't forget the way she shined
Moon and the stars and the sun combined
She was glowing, she was glowing
Walking by the riverside
As though created by the tide
Glowing
Dressed in document and song
Smile surpassing right and wrong
Glowing
Other thoughts were banished by the curve of her hand
And the perfect footprints in the dampened sand
There was nothing left to contemplate or to understand
She was glowing, she was glowing
And when I left the riverside
My heart she still occupied
Glowing
She told her life in serenade
With every movement that she made
Glowing
She was a lover who was never mine
But I can't forget the way she shined
Moon and the stars and the sun combined
She was glowing, she was glowing
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