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