"Lifetime (One Take)" lyrics
I recall a time and place when you'd call me 'baby'
Like a newborn crying out, yeah, you'd just hold me
In the sheets, never lonely
See we had all of the warmth in the world but yet we got so cold
I checked the debris, still don't know where it went wrong
Went wrong, now gone
I've been wide-eyed from sunset to the sunrise
I never really had a bedtime, So, I'm doing alright
But when I close my eyes, I still think that you're mine
Wish I could go back in time and set it right
But our hearts weren't aligned
And we were fighting all the time
And your love it was changing
Getting complicated
Yeah we tried to save it
And didn't quite make it
Getting back to basics
And ripping out the pages
But if you gotta go, you gotta go
And I know you're tired of tears filling up your eyes
And if you wanna know, you ought to know
I always thought it would be you and I
In the summertime, in the spring time, in the winter time
Damn it! For a lifetime
So, if you gotta go, you gotta go
I always thought we would get it right, yeah
A couple weeks have gone by, now even Mum's been asking
"How you been? What you doing, and how's Pilates classes?"
Don't know what Dad would say, but I can see his face
Kinda looks like mine, eyebrow raised and a hundred-yard gaze
And I was thinking about that time we met in California
Laying eyes on you was something that I'd never get over
But we got older, couldn't keep it in order
Couldn't make it work now our head's under the water
But if you gotta go, you gotta go
And I know you're tired of tears filling up your eyes
And if you wanna know, you ought to know
I always thought it would be you and I
In the summertime, in the spring time, in the winter time
Damn it! For a lifetime
So, if you gotta go, you gotta go
I always thought we would get it right, yeah
And I'm back at the headland writing songs where we first met
It's just me and these six strings but I feel you there
21 seems so long ago, just goes to show you never know
Just what you've got and what you had until you watch it go
And how ironic all those songs that I wrote about you and I
Talk about forever and ever and how love could never die
We were so high up
They never loved like us
I've never cussed in a song before but, baby, now it's all fucked up
But if you gotta go, you gotta go
I know you're tired of tears filling up your eyes
And if you wanna know, you ought to know
I always thought it would be you and I
In the summertime, in the spring time, in the winter time
Damn it! For a lifetime
So if you gotta go, you gotta go
I always thought we would get it right, yeah
Like a newborn crying out, yeah, you'd just hold me
In the sheets, never lonely
See we had all of the warmth in the world but yet we got so cold
I checked the debris, still don't know where it went wrong
Went wrong, now gone
I've been wide-eyed from sunset to the sunrise
I never really had a bedtime, So, I'm doing alright
But when I close my eyes, I still think that you're mine
Wish I could go back in time and set it right
But our hearts weren't aligned
And we were fighting all the time
And your love it was changing
Getting complicated
Yeah we tried to save it
And didn't quite make it
Getting back to basics
And ripping out the pages
But if you gotta go, you gotta go
And I know you're tired of tears filling up your eyes
And if you wanna know, you ought to know
I always thought it would be you and I
In the summertime, in the spring time, in the winter time
Damn it! For a lifetime
So, if you gotta go, you gotta go
I always thought we would get it right, yeah
A couple weeks have gone by, now even Mum's been asking
"How you been? What you doing, and how's Pilates classes?"
Don't know what Dad would say, but I can see his face
Kinda looks like mine, eyebrow raised and a hundred-yard gaze
And I was thinking about that time we met in California
Laying eyes on you was something that I'd never get over
But we got older, couldn't keep it in order
Couldn't make it work now our head's under the water
But if you gotta go, you gotta go
And I know you're tired of tears filling up your eyes
And if you wanna know, you ought to know
I always thought it would be you and I
In the summertime, in the spring time, in the winter time
Damn it! For a lifetime
So, if you gotta go, you gotta go
I always thought we would get it right, yeah
And I'm back at the headland writing songs where we first met
It's just me and these six strings but I feel you there
21 seems so long ago, just goes to show you never know
Just what you've got and what you had until you watch it go
And how ironic all those songs that I wrote about you and I
Talk about forever and ever and how love could never die
We were so high up
They never loved like us
I've never cussed in a song before but, baby, now it's all fucked up
But if you gotta go, you gotta go
I know you're tired of tears filling up your eyes
And if you wanna know, you ought to know
I always thought it would be you and I
In the summertime, in the spring time, in the winter time
Damn it! For a lifetime
So if you gotta go, you gotta go
I always thought we would get it right, yeah
