The Time Has Come lyrics

How can you just stand there
And act like nothing's wrong
You haven't even kissed me
Or held me for so long
There's no lipstick on your collar
There's no perfume on your clothes
There's no number on a matchbook
But a woman always knows

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A woman know without asking
A woman knows what's left unsaid
A woman knows when a man's been sleeping
In someone else's bed

I don't have all the answers

He sits all alone in his easy chair
Staring back at his lost yesterdays
Long before he encountered the bottle
and the demons that drove her away

In his hand he is holding her photograph
Her image all tearstained and worn
Tonight he's embracing reality
and he curses the day he was born

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And the darkness still echoes her warning
You can't have two loves in your life

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I can't sleep
For dreaming about you
When you're gone
There's nothing I can do
But lie awake alone
And dream the whole night through
I can't sleep
For dreaming about you

I close my weary eyes
And see your face
I hold my pillow tight
And dream of your embrace
I know that I could use the rest
But My lonely heart cries out for your caress

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I tried to hold our love together
But you let us fall apart
Now your leaving me for someone else
Taking what's left of my heart
But this time the pain don't feel that same
I'm not aching like I should
'Cause loving you has hurt so bad
That losing you feels good

I know you'll come back running to me
When the thrill is dead and gone
And you realize the love you need
Was right here all along

There's a photo in an album he don't notice anymore
That's me, that's me
There's a stack of cards and letters buried deep inside a drawer
That's me, that's me
And the shirt that I once slept in hanging loose behind the door
Tossed aside so carelessly
That's me, Oh that's me

There's a picture in my wallet and one less faded in my mind
That's him, that's him

In waters calm, I sailed from shore
To see what I might see
And having never sailed before
I drifted aimlessly
A warm breeze rocked my boat until
In slumber I fell sound
But woke to find the light grown dim
And dark clouds gathering 'round

In haste I worked at turning back
But now the wind blew wrong
And when the night came cold and black
My strength was almost gone

The time has come to let you go
My tears will run and they'll keep me afloat
I set you adrift like a burning boat
The time has come to let you go

The time has come to turn you loose
It took my heart this long to face the truth
If I lost you I can lose these blues
The time has come to turn you loose

We had our moment in the sun
But that time has come and now that time is gone

I'm so blue
Lonely for you
What makes you treat me the way that you do
I've been true
Only to you
Just call me your true blue fool

Every day you're away lasts forever
Oh what price my heart pays just to stay together

I'm so blue
Lonely for you
What makes you treat me the way that you do
I've been true
Only to you
Just call me your true blue fool

First you lie, then I cry, then you're sorry

Never believed in the straight and narrow
Always took the rocky road
Spread my wings like a wayward sparrow
Where the wind blew I would go
Thought no one could ever tame me
And no chains could tie me down
But your love put my feet back on the ground

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I wanna walk that line
True lovers do
Your hand in mine
Now I belong to you
I wanna join our hearts
With the ties that bind

When You Are Old
(Gretchen Peters)

When you are old and tired and gray
Wear your overcoat on sunny days
When your brave tales have all been told
I'll ask for them when you are old

When you are old and full of sleep
And death no longer makes you weep
When your body aches with cold
I'll warm your heart when you are old

You'll still be the same to me
A comfort and a mystery