Recently Lyrics - Joan Baez

Recently it all came back to me 

Somebody promised us roses 

We slid by for awhile on dreams 

But today I see what's only a memory 

Of a decade ago that vanished from sight 

With the speed of a shooting star 

Leaving you, leaving me, where we are... 

Well, you could say we sailed on stormy seas 

Or you could say that we failed 

Like seven out of ten in our neighborhood 

But I prefer remembering the way we were 

When we both thought the other had hung the moon 

'Cause all too soon came the troubled times 

And the broken rhymes so hard to define 'til recently 

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Oh, I could have tried for a thousand years 

Through the long and winding night 

Could have cried another million tears 

It would never come out right 

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And recently the product of all our years 

Dressed in a navy blue blazer 

Headed for a first class school in the east 

And I'd like to say he's hardly a failure now 

And neither are you on the second time around 

With a wife and a family 

And the roses that lately arrived in the new baby's eyes 

So recently