She comes and goes
She breaks my heart each day
And never knows,
And the time I spend
  in sorrow
Will match the time I live
And the time that't left is
All I have to give.

The woman's like an ivy
  on a pole
She wraps her twisted
  love around my soul
There will come a
  sudden winter
When she seeks the
  warmth of day
And there'll come a time
  when she will come to stay.

The woman's like the tide
She comes and goes
She knows the things that
  I can just suppose.
And the time I spend in
  sorrow
Will match the time
  that she laughs
And the songs I sing
  cannot explain but half