I Saw You Today

I saw you today
And, through the distant years
It all came back
Two people, young and sheltered
So unwary of the snares
We now know well
You’re now a woman
But still brown and very beautiful
You haven’t changed
She took your place — oh, what a face
Didn’t think I needed you
But I was wrong
She came and she went out
Upon a voyage, it seems
She’s never coming back
For now you both are gone
It seems so long ago I was a
Happy man
I saw you today
It didn’t seem as if
You’re coming back
I saw myself today
It didn’t seem as if
I’m coming back
And lo upon the hills
I see a shadow pass
To the other side —
We must accept these things
Oh, how I love you
Oh, how I love you