I can't love you if you won't let me If you find reasons to drive me away I can't love you like heaven sent me To fix the seasons and make them stay Through all the falling leaves like another Lost of their color, piled in the way Walk with abandon kicking the summer Flies in the face of talking this way Goldenrod withers, turns brown and broken And fields of vision turn dark and gray For I have spoken these words of feeling I have my own dreams that have blown away Can't find the shutter to freeze the feeling Bright in vermilion that maple-leaf day Stammer and stutter, vagrant and reeling That one-in-a-million that came to stay Now and forever this velvet cover Over the hourglass as time runs away I can't love you more than forever And still find the reasons to make you stay