For the first time or the last time
I want to hold you for a lifetime
Again a good-bye a laugh and a good cry
Can't leave it alone it's a shame not to try

A love and a sad song never lasted too long
A warm place to belong
Come back to the river, and toss in a stone
Time lost is precious, don't leave me along

She said I hate to get involved with another you see
Someone always gets hurt, but usually it' me
There's a sadness about her, she wants to be free
From the bonds of her beauty and the life that she leads
She said I wish I was a blue-eyed blonde
With that saintly kind of charm
Just another face in the crowd
Heard, but not too loud

Feel it beside you, feel me inside you
Free it again, as long as the sky's blue
She said, just be a man and take a hard stand
Walk away from it all, it's a part of the plan

Well do as she wants, but the memory still haunts
Ghosts of the fire, someone's desire