Sometimes I start to wonder why I'm fighting I'm so lonesome, girl And I don't know what I'd do If I didn't know That you were waiting for me Oh, but that's all I need to know To see me through And I've been loving you on paper much toO long, girl To be so far apart from you is wrong, girl But soon I'll step off that plane, hold my babe once again 'Cause I've been loving you on paper much too long Tonight As I write this letter to you You know I can't help wondering if it could be my last Oh, how I pray a bullet will not find me Until I hold you one more time, that all I ask 'Cause I've been loving you on paper much too long, girl To be so far apart from you is wrong, girl But my enlistment's almost through, soon I'll be home Loving you Yes, I've been loving you on paper much too long I've been loving you on paper much too long