Sunset Song - Richard Thompson

With you or without you, love

I must be moving

Never meant to linger here so long

With you or without you

Though it breaks my heart

To hear the Sunset Song

Wasn’t that a time we had

And bless you for it

But I’m a stranger here, I don’t belong

The band’s down on the jetty

If you cup your ear

You’ll hear the Sunset Song

You said, if I hold my breath

Dive down deep enough

I might grow fins

Seems to me I’ve held my breath

Held my breath to please you

Ever since

Early morning, that’s the time

For fare-thee-wells

Slip out of the warm sheets and gone

But I want to hear it as I walk away

Hear the Sunset Song

In your waking, in your dreams

I’ll not be martyred

On that cross where some say

I belong

Opinions are coffins, I’ll just trust my feet

To find the Sunset Song

Every day I’ll wear your memory

Like a favourite shirt upon my back

In the hallway, there’s my suitcase

By the door, I never did unpack

With you or without you, love

I must be moving

Never meant to linger here so long

With you or without you

Though it breaks my heart

To hear the Sunset Song