On the streets where the streetcars are squeaking through the morning The flags that are raised start to wave Goodbye to the old people gathered by warnings I stand on the corner and feel like a foreigner Oh, far from the sparkling blue waters Where the fish and the canvases play And the waves are as calm as my father And the daughters are dancing all day In the house where the housewares are thrown out the window In soap opera dreams they do scream And the people inside can't decide where they will go For the track it is wrong and the train it is long Oh, far from the sparkling blue waters Where the fish and the canvases play And the waves are as calm as my father And the daughters are dancing all day All the diamonds are packed back behind in the redwoods In the Japanese freighters back home But I won't cut that tree till I am sure it is dead wood And the last leaf has fallen and summer is gone Oh, far from the sparkling blue waters Where the fish and the canvases play And the waves are as calm as my father And the daughters are dancing all day And the daughters are dancing all day Oh