I Saw You Today - Anthony Phillips

I saw you today

And, through the distant years

It all came back

Two people, young and sheltered

So unwary of the snares

We now know well

You’re now a woman

But still brown and very beautiful

You haven’t changed

She took your place — oh, what a face

Didn’t think I needed you

But I was wrong

She came and she went out

Upon a voyage, it seems

She’s never coming back

For now you both are gone

It seems so long ago I was a

Happy man

I saw you today

It didn’t seem as if

You’re coming back

I saw myself today

It didn’t seem as if

I’m coming back

And lo upon the hills

I see a shadow pass

To the other side —

We must accept these things

Oh, how I love you

Oh, how I love you