It Came Too Fast - Per Gessle

They rescued her body

From out of the water

Fighting the tide that was

Too strong to save her

Had taken her under

It came too fast

The summertime air

Was closing around me

No one could cry 'cause

Our eyes were all empty

My breath in the warm winds

It came too fast

I was eight years old

And the sickness wave was coming

Until my mother turned my face

Away from the ocean

I wasn’t a child anymore

It came too fast

His life was so strange

Believed it so special

But time only proved

How he hadn’t changed things

The avantgarde one

Turned into mainstream

I was eighteen years

And so much younger

Than all the young ones

When she smiled at me

And I found her longing

I wasn’t a child anymore

It came too fast

His life was so strange

Believed it so special

But time only proved

How he couldn’t change things

The avantgarde one

Drowning in mainstream

It came so fast