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And the days they flew by |
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And the leaves fell from the trees |
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And many times you came around |
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And many times you slept with me |
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And every time that we made love |
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You wrote it down in your diary |
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Lady of ladies |
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But I would always say to you |
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Don't ask about tomorrow |
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Give what you have, take what you need |
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Your time is only now |
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Don't try to tie me down to promises |
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I live for today, today is all there is |
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And freedom seems to be everything to me |
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I took you down to a party |
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On the night of the 4th of |
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May And a strange and growing restlessness |
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Had hung in the air all day |
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The need to try and tear down |
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And destroy all that we'd made |
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Lady of ladies |
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You whispered in my ear and asked me |
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If I fancied her |
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You told me that he'd phoned you |
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When I was in |
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America Daring each other just to say okay |
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Swap for tonight, didn't |
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I always say |
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That freedom seems to be everything to me |
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And she came and she sat down beside me |
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And you found an excuse to go downstairs |
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And she smiled and made |
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The kind of conversation that you do |
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And later on she said ' |
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My last train has gone |
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Oh I wonder if you could run me home' |
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And I found vou in the hallway and told you |
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That was all that |
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I would do |
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Just run her home and it's through |
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Oh I thought you knew |
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But I must confess |
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I laid my head on her breast |
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And it seemed so hard |
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To pull it away |
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Her hand touched my hand |
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And her eyes were offering the rest |
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If it wasn't for you, oh |
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I would have stayed |
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But I came back home through the morning |
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To find you lying awake |
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And I knew all at once what you'd done |
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And I heard myself say "Why did you have to sleep with him Anyone else Wouldn't have mattered Half As much as him" |
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I don't want to touch you |
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Somehow you feel unclean |
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I just wish that you |
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Were five hundred miles away from me |
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Don't talk at all, don't start to cry |
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Just pack up your things |
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Lady of ladies |
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And though |
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I'd always told myself |
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That when our time ended |
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I'd walk away with no regrets |
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And no attempts to stay |
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Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way |
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I find I'm needing every word you say |
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This freedom seems to be everything to me |
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And you went up to |
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Cambridge |
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And you stayed in your brother's room |
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And you wrote me a letter and sent it the same afternoon |
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You said "I just want to hurt myself Oh I need you so badly now" |
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And you told me "Without you there seems to be no horizon at all Just no crack in the wall No place lower to fall " |
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Hey don't leave me, don't leave me |
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The shapelessness of the dawn |
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Floods above and beneath me, |
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I can't go on" And I had to walk right into the trap And I had to say please come back Though I felt all the while My resistance slipping away Why did I have to fall for you Anyone else Wouldn't have hurt me Half As much as you |
