It took 15 years for love to die
And 5 more years to say goodbye
No longer can she live this lie
She needs a change, she needs to fly

When kids were home, seemed different then
Places to go, house full of friends
But empty nests deplete the soul
A lonely house where love's grown cold

How did we grow so apart
How did love leave our hearts
Was love our doomed from the start
Where's the secret, where's the spark

Twenty years is all for not
Once untied, this wedding knot
And the future, what lays ahead
Without this man who shares her bed

Hard is this loyalty to one
Who once she made her morning sun
But good times died and turned to bad
Broken hearts now dark now sad.

Will tell him soon she thinks inside
Will break the news, no more to hide
Behind a lie that holds her bound
Once more to fly above the ground

Tonight for sure, tonight she’ll tell
How leaving will remove this hell
That leaving is the thing to do
Must not end with I LOVE YOU

Clean this break must be she thinks
Distance too between us make
Across the country she will go
New friends, by chance a love to know

But what of him, will he survive
Love for her has surely died
What tears for her might he cry
Oh God, is this another lie

Not easy being torn apart
Loved him once, with all her heart
She’s sure this is what’s meant to be
She’s sure she thinks she must be free

Oh God she prays clear my mind
Tell me I'm right, show me a sign



(c) Michael R Wood 2002