Tomorrow is a long time

If today was not an endless highway

If tonight was not a crooked trail

If tomorrow wasn't such a long time

Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all

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Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin'

And if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin'

Only if she was lyin' by me

Then I'd lie in my bed once again

I can't see my reflection in the waters

I can't speak the sounds that show no pain

And I can't hear the echo of my footsteps

Or can't remember the sound of my own name

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There's a beauty in the silver singin' river

There's a beauty in the sunrise in the sky

But none of these if nothing else can touch the beauty

That I remember in my own true love's eyes

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