So it's goodbye first love and I hope you're fine
I want you to know, we just had to grow
You have gathered flowers and they do not smell for me
But in the wide hills and beside many a long water
Me, rushing round Britain with a guitar
Maybe someday to bear babies by me, she's pretty
I have a sweet woman
I want you to know, I just had to go
I'd just have to fall
I want you to know, we just had to grow
Try to hold your face before me
And in the lonely midnight
I want you to know, I just had to go
Though we must have made love a thousand times
We were just young, didn't have no place to go
And I mean in the six sad morning
And if I was lying near you now
I didn't even like to see
When I was seventeen
Well, I never slept with you
You turned into a grownup female stranger
I wouldn't be here at all
But me, I remember your long red hair falling in our faces
And you turned into a grownup female stranger
I want you to know, we just had to grow
You're probably married now, kids and all
And the last time I seen you, you said you'd joined the Church of Jesus
As I kissed you
We parted so hard
I used to know you
And you're probably married now, house and car and all
And making love to people
I would think of you
And if I was lying near you now
I want you to know, I just had to go
Well, I haven't seen you now since many is the short year
