Old Lovers
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written by Richard Ruane, copyright Okey Dokey Folkie Music (BMI)
 

Lovers once were here that now are past and gone.

Sometimes easy leaving, sometimes raw and wrong.

All those lows and peaks, hide and seeks,

never really leave you, they’re never really gone.

But I can still remember the looks, the smiles, the eyes,

the sweet voices and soft replies.

And the early light, when love was bright,

and we’d walk arm in arm, and hold each other tight.

 

But I know, we don’t live there anymore.

I know, time has closed that door.

And I feel, my life has truly changed,

but love is always love, and part of it remains.

 

I have got a lover now, the deepest one I’ve known,

a house beside a river, children of our own.

And though life is bliss, still I’ll reminisce,

on the life I knew before her, the early loves I’d known.

Old lovers know me well, but they don’t lead me astray,

share a smile, talk awhile, we’re rooted in today.

Through the saddest ends, time makes amends,

and sometimes we’ll stop to talk before we go our way.