If today was not an endless highway
 If tonight was not a crooked trail
 If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time
 Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all
 Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’
 Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’
 Only if she was lyin’ by me
 Then I’d lie in my bed once again
 
 I can’t see my reflection in the waters
 I can’t speak the sounds that show no pain
 I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps
 Or can’t remember the sound of my own name
 Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’
 Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’
 Only if she was lyin’ by me
 Then I’d lie in my bed once again
 
 There’s beauty in the silver, singin’ river
 There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky
 But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty
 That I remember in my true love’s eyes
 Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’
 Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’
 Only if she was lyin’ by me
 Then I’d lie in my bed once again