Well baby, there you stand With your little head down in your hands Oh my god, you can't believe It's happening again Your baby's gone and you're all alone And it looks like the end
You're back out streets And you're trying to remember How to start it over But you don't know if you can You don't care much for a strangers touch But you can't hold your man
You never thought you'd be alone This far down the line But I know what's been on your mind You're afraid it's all been wasted time
The autumn leaves have got you thinkin' About the first time that you fell You didn't love the boy too much No no, you just loved the boy too well
So you live from day to day And you dream about tomorrow And the hours go by like minutes The shadows come to stay So you take a little somethin' To make them go away
I could have done so many things, baby If I could only stop my mind From wonderin' what I left behind And from worryin' about this wasted time
Another love has come and gone And the years keep rushing on I remember what you told me Before you went out on your own: "Sometimes to keep it together You've got to leave it alone"
So you can get on with your search, baby And I can get on with mine And maybe someday we will find That it wasn't really wasted time
