If today was not a crooked 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’

And if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’

Yes, only if she was lyin’ by me

Then I’d 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 remember the sound of my own name

Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’

And if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’

Yes and only if she was lyin’ by me

Then I’d lie in my bed once again

There’s beauty in the silver, singin’ river

There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky

But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty

That I remember in my true love’s eyes

Yes and only if my own true love was waitin’

I could hear her heart a softly poundin’

Yes and only if she was lyin’ by me

Then I’d lie in my bed once again