Your smile once was welcome,
But it never came,
Your touch was all I needed to heal the pain,
Your uncertainty now brings you back to me,
After so many years,
The years teach their lessons,
And I’ve learned mine well,
There’s truth in the wisdom ‘only time will tell’,
And I’m here to tell you now,
You’ll pull through somehow,
And you’ll learn by your tears,
As I send you on your way,
Don’t you turn around to beg,
Now you know just how I felt for years,
And it’s not that I’m so cruel,
It’s just that I don’t love you anymore,
A heart that’s been broken always cries alone,
When a love that was tender has somehow turned to stone,
And my heart is stone these days,
As I give to you this phrase,
You know you’ll learn by your tears,
And as I send you on your way,
Don’t you turn around to beg,
Now you know just how I felt for years,
And it’s not that I’m so cruel,
It’s just that I don’t love you anymore.
Copyright 1976, Gary Lee Bryan
Recorded in about 1992