the woman s like the night she comes and goes she breaks my heart each day and never knows and the time i spend in sorrow will match the time i live and the time that s left is all i have to give the woman s like an ivy on a pole she wraps her twisted love around my soul there will come a sudden winter when she ll seek the warmth of day and there ll come a time when she will come to stay the woman s like the tide she comes and goes she knows the things that i can just suppose and the time i spend in sorrow will match the time that she laughs and the songs i sing cannot explain but half