Too Many Years

I opened the door and I

found I was looking at danger

It's been too many years but we're

hiding our faces like strangers

She says that she's got to go

but there ain't no way

I'm letting her walk while

there's something to say

It's been too many years

to watch our hearts die this way

She's feeling a time for a

seasonal change and she's yearning

to shake the trees of our love in the streets

where the leaves are for burning

All things on this earth

were made for the dying

a look in my soul says

it just ain't no use trying

It's been too many years

to watch our hearts die this way

In an unwritten time I thought that

life was for sharing

and living together was simply

a matter of caring

But things did not work out like I planned and

Alienation has left me here damned

It's been too many years

to watch our hearts die this way