After All These Years
Words and Music by Terry Taylor
©1980 Cancel and Eat (ASCAP)
Believe me darling, I'm just a man
But if I could be your everything, you know I would
And if you were only crying tears my kiss could dry away
I'd gently wipe them from your eyes
Tell you everything's OK
But after all these years there lingers still
An emptiness I cannot fill
After all these years
After all these years
I realize my love, you're just a woman
For you're not the treasure, nor a precious jewel
There swims deep longing in my soul
This ocean has no floor
It's not your voice that drowns my ears,
It's the knocking at my door
After all these years there lingers still
An emptiness you cannot fill
Please realize my love, I'm just a man
Yet if I could be your everything you know I would
This picture-puzzle love we share, it's yet to be complete
We drink of love yet thirst again; the taste is bittersweet
And after all these years there lingers still
An emptiness only He and He alone can fill
After all these years
After all these years
