Baez Joan Recently Lyrics

Recently Lyrics

Recently (Joan Baez)

 

 Recently it all came back to me

 Somebody promised us roses

 We slid by for awhile on dreams

 But today I see what's only a memory

 of a decade ago that vanished from sight

 with the speed of a shooting star

 Leaving you, leaving me, where we are...

 

 Well, you could say we sailed on stormy seas

 or you could say that we failed like seven out

   of ten in our neighboorhood

 But I prefer remembering the way we were

 when we both thought the other had hung the moon

 cause too soon

 came the troubled times and the

 broken rhymes so hard to define

 till recently

 

 Oh, I could have tried for a thousand years

 through the long and winding night

 could have cried another million tears

 it would never come out right

 

 And recently the product of all our years

 dressed in a navy blue blazer

 headed for a first class school in the East

 And I'd like to say he's hardly a failure now

 and neither are you on the second time round

 with a wife and a family

 and the roses that lately arrived

 in the new baby's eyes

 So recently