From the recording A Leap of Faith
Lyrics
On My Own Again
©2011 Lyrics & Music by Paul Thompson
Met you on a crossroads
Where the sun always used to shine
A lazy apple orchard
In the heady days of youth
We walked a while, talked a mile
Lay in the long, long grass
All our dreams, all our plans
Our lives laid out in advance
Didn’t I ever tell you
My only real dream was you?
Didn’t I ever show you
The love in my heart for you was true?
I’m on my own again
Can’t go back again
On my own again
Stronger now than then
On my only lonely
Only lonely now and then
Left you on the crossroads
When winter lay so deep
And though I tried to call you
The distance was too great
Though I always wanted to be with you
That path never seemed to be mine
What always was forever
Got lost in the mists of time
Didn’t I ever tell you
My only real dream was you?
Didn’t I ever show you
The love in my heart for you was true?
I’m on my own again
Can’t go back again
On my own again
Stronger now than then
I’m on my own again
Won’t go back again
On my own again
Stronger now than then
On my own again
I’m on my own again
On my own
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