Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Long Time Girl Gone By , by - Rodney Crowell. Release date: 31.12.2011
Song language: English
Long Time Girl Gone By |
| If I could live my life again awake |
| Think of all the chances I could take |
| I’d love with all abandon just the same |
| 'Cause that’s the game |
| If I could cross a bridge from now to then |
| Open up my chest and let it in |
| I wouldn’t fight so hard against the pain |
| I’d let it rain |
| Long time girl gone by |
| I couldn’t take my loves the way they came |
| My eyes projected each one with a stain |
| And though they gave me more than I could spend |
| I wouldn’t bend |
| Hiding in my bridal veil of smoke |
| I sipped my lies until I thought I’d choke |
| Once there was nothing left that I could steal |
| I had to yield |
| Long time girl gone by |
| The seconds whisper circles off the clock |
| The ships go sailing past and never dock |
| The sea rears up, collapses and withdraws |
| The constellations wheel and never pause |
| The wind winds through the small bones in my ear |
| I start to hear |
| The trees look just as pretty when they’re bare |
| Black branches hieroglyphic in the air |
| The leaves they left are rotted into lace |
| It’s all grace |
| Long time girl gone by |
| Long time girl gone by |