I came to stay the holiday just one long year ago
I'd like to say I'm sorry for what the year has done
I came to share your friendship and sing those fireside songs
The love for you was in me, the tear was in your eye
I never said I'm sorry, I never said goodbye
The silence grew around the wound that tore your heart and mine
Our love that night by firelight, we did not have to say
But you and I together and her so far away
So now the year is cold again and memory is warm
I told you of a distant love I did not know so well
I could not say I loved her but surely time would tell
I think about your kindness and what the time has done
So time will tell a story and time will tell a lie
