My summer pearl fell from the train
       it was a fake, but just the same
sad was the day I left your side
      the season's end , bereft I cried
and waved goodbye without restrain.

        You gave me popcorn and a prize
and I could see it in your eyes
       just like a diamond in the sand
you found my heart when you took my hand
     and gave me ******* Jack's surprise.

I wore that ring as if it were
       a symbol of your love that summer
as seasons go, there came a day
      you asked if we'd come back to stay
we never did, I was a kid and life's a ******.

Long-distance is a lonely thing
       your letters made me want to sing
daydreams and photographs
      time passes trains and laughs
I kept the t-shirt and the ring.

You asked me once how I could cry
        over a plastic pearl gone bye
because I loved you so, you see
       we were like real to me, and gee
it hurt me more that you'd ask why.

Hello I just turned turned forty-nine
        I saw your Facebook page online
you have a wife I see,
       and a growing family
a little girl named Clementine.

Your other daughter is fifteen
        won't friend her father cause she's mean
she met a guy she loves, a cook
        he gave her cashmere gloves, and look
she's posting pictures on the screen.

Don't know you now, you don't know me
        one chapter from our history
although it's long been lost and such
       and though it didn't cost you much
that summer pearl was never free