Practically bore your name
 Lying alone in the twilight zone
 Waiting for your call to come in
 Hadn't been for the kid
 Who was sleeping upstairs
 You'd have found me well on my way
 On that midnight plane to L.A.

 You suffered sweeter for me
 Than anyone I've ever known

 I dared to look into the years
 Would you still have your wife?
 I dared to peer through my tears
 Could we ever have a life?
 Even thought I was pregnant by you
 But I didn't care
 I just talked to my son
 Would he mind another one?

 You suffered sweeter for me
 Than anyone I've ever known

 Once more the mist rolls to the sea
 Like a hundred times we've known
 Trees are faded and the clouds have stopped
 Where the wind had blown
 How I dread when the evening comes
 And I cannot be
 What you want me to be
 When you are next to me

 How silent you are as the veils come down
 Before my eyes
 Soft and reserved as you move away
 Donning your disguise
 While every folk song that I ever knew
 Once more comes true
 And loves grows old
 And waxes cold

 You suffered sweeter for me
 Than anyone I've ever known

 Just one favor of you, my love
 If I should die today
 Take me down to where the hills
 Meet the sea on a stormy day
 Ride a ridge on a snow white horse
 And throw my ashes away
 To the wind and the sand
 Where my song began

 You suffered sweeter for me
 Than anyone I've ever known