Had we a heart for the love we had shared
God could have been kind and just left us a pair
But maybe our senses got into the way;
It had to be darkness that shadowed our days.
What truly is love but a sense of its own,
With no ***** to claim but a skill to be honed?
Is it thought, is it heat that will soon dissipate?
Is it a function of time, is it tangent to hate?
As I sit, does it stand, am I strictly opposed
To this thing I call love that I’ve now juxtaposed
To a satanic vice, to the absence of God?
Am I now nothing more than a pitiless fraud,
Who claims to be worldly and knows so much more
Than the man on the street and the ungodly *****,
Who see life in its rawness and laugh at the child,
Who lives in a bubble and makes fierce what is mild?
What the babe doesn’t know is that he never can,
For to live is to know, and to love: to be Man.
So he who’s not lived may learn suddenly
The fury of flesh and what love should be.

At the house on the hill where the evergreens grew,
By the lake where we fished while our love was still new,
We had talked; we had walked to the end of the roads
We had pride in our stride and made high all our lows

At the house on the hill where the evergreens grew,
On the swing where we laughed, it was then when I knew
That our talks and our walks were much more than a game
And quite soon, if I could, I would give you my name

At the house on the hill where the evergreens grew,
In the dark of the night when the stars shined for you,
With no care in the world, we made love in the grass
With a passionate heat no one else could surpass

At the house on the hill where the evergreens grew,
Where we laid in the grass from the frost ‘til the dew
I had seen all to come, but I was not aware
That I could have been wrong, and I truly despaired

At the house on the hill where the evergreens grew,
In the door where we kissed and I said “bye” to you,
In my sorrow I stood, and I knew you were gone
From the house on the hill where I waited so long.

At the house on the hill where the evergreens grew,
The trees all stayed green like my love did for you.