It's been a long time a-comin' and I have to carry on
It's been a long time a-comin' but now you're gone

Oh, look at me sittin', starin' at the rain
Knowin' the days that we once knew won't ever come again
Well it seems to strange to really be
So I pinch myself and I find oh, yeah, it's me

It's been a long time a-comin' and I have to carry on
It's been a long time a-comin' but now you're gone

And it's too late to turn, back all the clocks in town
It's too late to take the X from yesterday
Now the die is cast, nothin' happens in the past
So I'll think I'll take a walk out in the rain

Oh, here I go, walkin' down the street in time
I'm never knowin' though I'm tryin' to keep myself in rhyme
Just a while has now become too long
Consequently to you I can say, goodbye, so long, yeah

It's been a long time a-comin' and I have to carry on
It's been a long time a-comin' but now you've gone, you were gone right

And it's too late to turn, back all the clocks in town
It's too late to take the X from yesterday
Now the die is cast, nothin' happens in the past
So I'll think I'll take a walk out in the rain

Oh, here I go, walkin' down the street in time
Never knowin' though I'm tryin' to keep myself in rhyme
Just a while has now become too long
Consequently to you I can say, goodbye, so long, yeah

It's been a long time a-comin' and I have to carry on
It's been a long time a-comin' but now you're gone
But now you're gone, but now you're gone