I Mustn't Pass This Way Again

(Ruby Allmond)



Today I'll watch the tide come in

Taste the salt and sea and wind

And search for crumbled castles in the sand

Then I'll go back inside my mind

Think about you one more time

Then I mustn't pass this way again.



I see the road we traveled on

When you were right and I was wrong

But pride would never let me say it then.

For a moment I still feel again

Burning lips and clinging hands

No, I mustn't pass this way again.



For remembering's the hardest part of living

And a memory won't ever understand

How a fool could turn away from all the giving

No, I mustn't ever pass this way again.



Today I'll think about the rain

And how the tiny raindrops came

And nestled there like dimples on your skin.

You'd just toss them off and smile at me

Say they came from God so let it be

And very soon the sun would shine again.



But today the sun has gone away

And love is there in yesterday,

But the past can't hold the future in its hand.

So I'll just have to let it be...

Let it fade into a memory

And never, ever pass this way again.



For remembering's the hardest part of living

And a memory won't ever understand

How a fool could turn away from all the giving

No, I mustn't ever pass this way again.



No, I mustn't ever pass this way again...