Waiting For You Lyrics - Gordon Lightfoot

Say what you will, I will miss you my friends 

Let me move along for the road never ends 

Vowing to live till the end of all time 

All the way to the ends of the earth because i'm 

Waiting for you to say you will be mine 

Many long days, many long years 

Many wrong plays, many wrong fears 

I could be tossed in the arms of the sea 

I could be caught between decks eternally 

Waiting for you to ask what's keeping me 

What would we do at the end of the day 

When the hours are asleep and the time slips away 

Children are all that the earth has to show 

Children are all that the earth wants to know 

Up here in the northland, up here in the snow 

Up in the wilderness, land of our birth 

Land of our toil, land of our worth 

I could stay healthy and wealthy and wise 

For I love the snow other snowbirds criticize 

Tell that to a wife and you'll get a surprise 

The skies of north america are covered in stars 

Over factories and farms, over hamlets and bars 

The breeze of north america is breathless at night 

Out there in the distance some souls are in flight 

Some soft-hearted lovers whose goals are in sight