Tomorrow Is a Long Time - Odetta

If today was not an endless highway

If tonight was not a crooked trail

If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time

Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all

Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin

Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin

Only if she was lyin by me

Then Id lie in my bed once again

I can’t see my reflection in the waters

I can’t speak the sounds that show no pain

I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps

Or can’t remember the sound of my own name

Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin

Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin

Only if she was lyin by me

Then Id lie in my bed once again

Theres beauty in the silver, singin river

Theres beauty in the sunrise in the sky

But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty

That I remember in my true loves eyes

Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin

Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin

Only if she was lyin by me

Then Id lie in my bed once again