Standing on your doorstep
On one morning in spring
Delivering Pink tulips
Not half as pretty
As what made my insides ring
Walking along the Grand Canal
At midnight in the pouring rain
Writing lines that came from who knows where
On a love letter bearing your name
Singing:
She’s gonna be my true love
‘Till time fades away
She’s always been my true love
Only just not today
Beneath a tree
Among the tapestries
Along Portobello road
Me and the boys selling corduroys
Standing in the cold
She came by
Said hi
And swiftly disappeared
Throughout the coming year
The truth became clear
It was what I’d almost feared
That you were:
Gonna be my true love
‘Till time fades away
She’s always been my true love
Only just not today
I dreamed up a whole lifetime
About a house along a country lane
Where you and me raised a family
I couldn’t see I was going insane
I was dancing beneath the autumn sky
Mending the roof with a hammer and nails
You were sitting by the fire with the grand children
Reading Russian fairy tales
Singing:
She’s gonna be my true love
‘Till time fades away
She’s always been my true love
Only just not today
We were married in the winter
Just a small affair drawn up on a note
But your fingers were gentle as the falling snow
Brushing confetti from my coat
I sang the night a love song
Which entertained the guests
We drove away at the break of dawn
You had a babe upon your breast
Singing:
She’s gonna be my true love
‘Till time fades away
She’s always been my true love
Only just not today
I know you even tried to warn me
But that only made matters worse
Only one thing you could have informed me
Would have lifted the curse
No matter my true love
One day the dream will fade away
And I’ll be as free as the rolling sea
But still the seasons say
That you’re:
Gonna be my true love
‘Till time fades away
She’s always been my true love
Only just not today
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