The time is past and will not come again
when love was spun with glances in the air;
the feelings fade and only words remain.

What I do not feel I will not feign
but do not think I do not care
the time is past and will not come again
.
The memory of love causes no pain
for time and distance shrivel what was rare;
the feelings fade and only words remain.

Your smile put those poems in my brain,
an audience of one with shining hair;
the time is past and will not come again.

Life is dying but growing again
and love is having faith in what you dare;
the feelings fade and only words remain.

But love's experience is not in vain;
what we have been through we still can share;
the time is past and will not come again,
the feelings fade - but still the words remain.