Then It Will All Be Over

Mel Tillis · Living and Learning/Take My Hand [1971]

(Juanita Southern)



If you're leaving in the morning

Don't wake me up to say goodbye

I'll be dreaming back of you or so

Back to our first hello

And don't want to wake up just to cry.



I'll just kiss you for the last time

If you're asleep you'll never know

I'll tuck the covers round you tightly

Tiptoe out so very lightly

Turn the lights out in our world then I'll go.



Then it will all be over

Someone from the past got in our way

Then it will all be over

Oh, but we're waking up to face the day.



Please don't tell me where you're going

I may not always be this strong

If too much crying starts coming down

I may go running round

To another world where I don't belong.



No, I won't wake you just to tell you

Where I'll be if you don't want to know

Though deep inside I will be weeping

I'll leave you sleeping

Close the door to our world then I'll go.



Then it will all be over

Someone from the past got in our way

Then it will all be over

Oh, but we're waking up to face the day...