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 Oh, look at me Sittin' starin' at the rain Knowin' the days that we once new 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've gone And it's to late to turn Back all the clocks in town It's to late 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 to long Consequently to you I can say Goodbye, so long 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 And it's to late to turn Back all the clocks in town It's to late 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 to long Consequently to you I can say Goodbye, so long And it's to late to turn Back all the clocks in town It's to late 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 to long Consequently to you I can say Goodbye, so long 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 But now you've gone But now you've gone