Dont treat gently now What you wont always When you run away Dont care now for the things That will make you regret Dont show me Pictures and memoirs Of what you expect me to be All these things If have to have them Why are you looking here Close to me you fall asleep Turned face to the door Dreamed I could Take you back to the old Why dont you Go back to yourself Im sorry for you Go back to yourself So long finally out of time Could the world Satisfy your heart Softly now listen to the firelight Gently down Raise your head and go Still run away safely behind And gently inside these places Secrets, like feelings, Ill never know Wrapped up inside the memory Of where you would rather be, Softly now, falling asleep, Gently down, Laid gently down