All Those Years ©

Whispers in the summer wind
Spoke of someone new
Your step so light and free
Told me we were through

It's spring again for you dear
While winter pours down here
All we learned forgotten
Your smiles a cheap veneer

The blooms of love neglected
Never watered never fed
Your head so cool and clear
And your hidden pain unbled

I tiptoe round your secret life
As clumsy as a child
So much left unspoken
Gone to seed and growing wild

Chorus:
All those years we shared love
Somehow slipped your mind
And in someone else's arms dear
You lost all sense of time

The fault was always mine
Somehow you couldn't speak
Some things never change
I made you feel too weak

Half of that is true I guess
I carried you too high
I showed you all I could
But didn't help you cry

Now you're flying high again
Blind with love it seems
He's always on your mind
While you're my every dream

I'm standing in your shadow now
Invisible and small
While Lies and alibis
Keep you standing tall

Chorus:
All those years we shared love
Somehow slipped your mind
And in someone else's arms dear
You lost all sense of time

Tail lights in the distance
You hide behind the night
I wonder where you are
And who you're with tonight

Is this the way love ends then
In this cul-de-sac
You driving off to him
And me here looking back

The last time we were here
Love was on our side
But now the wind is colder
And this time it's goodbye

It's the agony of losing
It's all that might have been
It's what I might have done
To keep you here with me

Chorus:
All those years we shared love
Somehow slipped your mind
And in someone else's arms dear
You lost all sense of time