Sunset Song Songtext / Lyric

With you or without you, love,

I must be moving

Never meant to linger here so long

With you or without you,

though it breaks my heart

To hear the Sunset Song



Wasn't that a time we had,

and bless you for it

But I'm a stranger here, I don't belong

The band's down on the jetty,

if you cup your ear

You'll hear the Sunset Song



You said, if I hold my breath

Dive down deep enough

I might grow fins

Seems to me I've held my breath

Held my breath to please you

ever since






Early morning, that's the time

for fare-thee-wells

Slip out of the warm sheets and gone

But I want to hear it as I walk along

Hear the Sunset Song



In your waking, in your dreams,

I won't be martyred

On that cross where some say

I belong

Opinions are coffins, I'll just trust my feet

To find the Sunset Song



Every day I'll wear your memory

Like a favourite shirt upon my back

In the hallway, there's my suitcase

By the door, I never did unpack



With you or without you, love,

I must be moving

Never meant to linger here so long

With you or without you,

though it breaks my heart

To hear the Sunset Song