Comes And Goes

Comes And Goes - Dan Fogelberg

The woman's like the night

She comes and goes

She breaks my heart each day

And never knows

And the time I spend in sorrow

Will match the time I live

And the time that's left is

All I have to give

The woman's like an ivy on a pole

She wraps her twisted love around my soul

There will come a sudden winter

When she'll seek the warmth of day

And there'll come a time when she will come to stay

The woman's like the tide

She comes and goes

She knows the things that I can just suppose

And the time I spend in sorrow

Will match the time that she laughs

And the songs I sing cannot explain but half