AGE GAP LOVE
lyrics by Roger Coghill
Intro:
I had forgotten what it’s like
I didn’t think that I could be,
In this October of my life
So much in love, so suddenly.
Waiting for texts and messages,
Sad and yet happy all at once,
I need a witch’s magic spell
To set me free from this romance.
Verse:
She’s twenty five, and every waking hour
I think of her. It’s torturing my mind.
I see her springtime face in every flower that grows,
I hear her laughter in each gentle wind.
It shouldn’t be like this. It’s quite unfair
To open up emotion’s heavy box
And let the wild, wild bird of love fly free
When age and years have sealed it with stout locks.
The world will whisper “He’s too old for her”
And pain will pile on pain, and tears will start.
The world will whisper “She’s too young for him”,
And fear of losing her will freeze my heart.
Wise poets and philosophers all say
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast”
But this eternal autumn of my years
Should long have let such passions rest.
The world should know that love’s an untamed bird,
That love can fly from tree to tree to tree.
In saplings and stout oaktrees can love nest.
So turn again cruel world, and let us be.
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