For The Good Times Lyrics
But life goes on, and this old world will keep on turning.
Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together.
There's no need to watch the bridges that we're burning.
Hold your warm and tender body close to mine.
Hear the whisper of the raindrops,
Blowin' soft against the window,
And make believe you love me one more time,
For the good times.
And I'll be here if you should find you ever need me.
Don't say a word about tommorrow or forever,
There'll be time enough for sadness when you leave me.
Hold your warm and tender body close to mine.
Hear the whisper of the raindrops,
Blowin' soft against the window,
And make believe you love me one more time,
For the good times.
One of the best breakup songs ever - so much cynicism towards love, quite a bit of passive aggression and sarcasm...Up there with Don't Think Twice It's Alright by Bob Dylan, and Dreams by Fleetwood Mac.
Kristofferson has got it here, in the best of the songs in the genre with "Touch me in the Morning," "Angel of the Morning" and such. I can still hear my father, with his deep voice and Fifties Sinatra style, singing this song by the yellow piano. The mortality of love is otherwise a sorrow beyond speech, but it is because forever means so much, and is the goal of love in marriage, that this can be such a sorrow. Kristofferson wrote about four songs in this period that could be ranked in our top fifty, but this one is far superior even to "Me and Bobby McGee" and Sunday Mornin Commin Down."
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