Lyric discussion by mmcdonald 

Cover art for For The Good Times lyrics by Kris Kristofferson

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."

From mmcdonald77.wordpress.com/Music, The Rock Commentaries