Long, Long Time - Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Well I left my home searching up for green grass

Headed for pine ridge and points beyond

But on the road I met an impasse

Every direction looked just like home

There is a road there is a mountain

With many stops along the way

How many days I am not counting

It's been a long long time you've been away

Well a flower grows in a deep dark canyon

Where the river wanders to leave the trail

And the night bird searches for her companion

Who sings of sunlight behind the veil

Everyone knows what makes the dove sing

And now I know you've gone to stay

How many nights I am not counting

It's been a long long time you've been away

Now I walk alone down streets of silver

In empty hollows wet with the dew

In the sudden stillness of a summer morning

In all my dreams I walk with you

There is a rose there is a fountain

And I have found that lost highway

How many years I have stopped counting

It's been a long long time I've been away

It's been a long long time I've been away