I opened the door and I found I was looking at danger   It's been too many years but we're hiding our faces like strangers   She says that she's got to go but there ain't no way   I'm letting her walk while there's something to say      It's been too many years   To watch our hearts die this way      She's feeling a time for a seasonal change and she's yearning   To shake the trees of our love in the streets   Where the leaves are for burning   All things on this earth were made for the dying   A look in my soul says, it just ain't no use trying      It's been too many years   To watch our hearts die this way      In an unwritten time I thought that life was for sharing   And living together was simply a matter of caring   But things did not work out like I planned   And alienation has left me here damned      It's been too many years   To watch our hearts die this way