Each day, talking away,
Hand in hand I walked you home from school...
There's me, maybe eighteen,
Love's young dream or maybe love's young fools...
We only knew what we knew,
Life was exiting and new...
Time and tide won't wait for this man,
So I held your held and took you for my own,
Best of our years, caught in one gear,
Time washed away like words drawn in the sand,
We only knew what we knew,
How could we know what to do?
Please tell me something to make me feel better,
Please tell me something to help me understand,
There must be something to make me feel better,
There must be something to help me understand...
(Do you believe in a life after death?
Something to cling to as you take your last breath?
Do you believe in a life after death?
Holding to something when you think of the end?)
We danced in Paris, we kissed in Rome,
Now you're in heaven, and I'm alone,
Where did the years go? They passed me by...
All of it over in the twinkle of an eye...
And now I feel it, a colder breeze,
The winter's coming to clear the autumn leaves,
The life we built and the life we made,
All too soon will slowly start to fade...
We only knew what we knew,
How could we know what was true?
credits
from A Waste of Time & Space,
released July 6, 2018
Jon Birch - vocals, keyboards and programming
Si Bright - vocals and guitars
Music by Jon Birch
Words by Si Bright and Jon Birch
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