It's Been a Long Time

All those days have now turned to years So unwilling to listen to all those inner tears And yet as another day will soon begin to set You are so clever in avoiding the fisherman's net For as each of those days has soon passed you by Not one single time did you even try Vainly working among all the other fools Ascertaining nothing but all those worldly tools So long ago it was so very different When on Sunday morning, off to church you went When each and every single one of your days Was at least filled with some little sort of praise We both know that it's just been too long ago But there is something that I wanted you to know Through all this time I have never left your side And that gap between us, it is not at all that wide