to the cadence of
Paul Simon's
"I do it for your love"
We were young, she was just a teen
we fell in love in some distant dream.
I remember the hours then
full of love of a younger ken.
Tumbled dreams of another day
houses where we lived, the things we'd say,
all gone down in the endless play.
I do recall her love.
The years we had now seemed so smooth
but memories always seem to lose
the edge of what really happened then
when we learned to love and we had to bend.
But people never really lose themselves
The benders bend and abuse themselves
and at some point we have to choose ourselves.
I do recall her love.
We were young, she was just a teen
I remember her, my distant dream.
She loved me then when love was all
and I never felt I could ever fall.
But through the years the bitter lines
formed where love, ...her love met mine
and she came to see I was not her dream
and all our years were not as they seemed
and I remember all I've lost.
Her dreams have woken, our stars uncrossed
but if I ever get the chance again
then I'd fall in love and start again.
gallagher
28 September 1977
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —