Thirty Years Of Tears

Is this a place, I can rest my poor head To gather my thoughts in sweet silence And is this a place where the feelings aren't dead From an overexposure to violence And is this a place, I can slowly face The only one, I truly can know And these are tears from a long time ago I've got these tears from a long time ago And I need to cry, thirty years or so These are tears from a long time ago Oh darling, oh darling, you say unto me Where have you been all my lifetime Well, I have been swimmin' the seven sad seas Fair women have thrown me their lifelines And I just pulled them in to the water's dark grin I'd have warned 'em but I didn't know These are tears from a long time ago I've got these tears from a long time ago And I need to cry, thirty years or so These are tears from a long time ago Well, I've cried me a river, I've cried me a lake Well, I've cried till the past, nearly drowned me Tears for sad consequences, tears for mistakes But never these tears that surround me Alone in this place with a lifetime to trace Now a heartbeat that tells me it's so Well, I've got these tears from a long time ago And these are tears from a long time ago And I need to cry, thirty years or so These are tears from a long time ago These are tears from a long time ago I've got these tears from a long time ago