I just couldn't see the forest for the trees I was standing in tall timber With many women on the line But somehow in the tangle of all those love affairs I overlooked the only one who cares I just couldn't see the forest for the trees That's what's been wrong with me You never miss the water till the well runs dry My sweet love said goodbye and now I wish I could die I thought that I, I was a swinger And had the whole world by the tail But I was wrong because the only thing that's swinging Is the door that she walked through saying farewell I just couldn't see the forest for the trees That's what's been wrong with me You never miss the water till the well runs dry My sweet love said goodbye and now I wish I could die