Shivering at the corner with the girl Waiting for the bus to come I was reeling with the news that I heard And how could I lose these blues? But then I looked into your smiling eyes And I knew right away that we would never die I had come up from the gulf to get your hand Thinking I was someone else Could you be the kind of girl that relates To only one or two of these states? And when we looked out at the ice blue sky Then I knew right away that we would never die I missed it every time I couldn't feel the kind of love that you showed me there Can't you feel the sun so warm on our backs Showing us a a golden path Don't you see the swaying trees, the falling leaves? Opens on a shining track And I never liked a a long goodbye Is it too late to give up? So I called to you to my surprise And I knew right away that we would never die