It Takes To Long To Learn To Live Alone

(album: Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota - 1972)

I leave the house, I lock the door
And go to work, the way I did before
The same routine most every day
Except I guess, I see my folks much more

A year has passed, I thought by now that
I could make a new life of my own
But habits are so hard to break
I think of you and I still ache
It takes too long to learn to live alone

It's really bad when Friday comes
Because I know the weekend lies ahead
The walks we took, the football games
And when it rains how late we stayed in bed

I've done so much to change the house
The attic's full of memories that I've known
And yet, when I turn out the light
I wait for you to say goodnight
It takes too long to learn to live alone

I go on dates but when I do
I always find, before the night is through
The same old thing behind my smile
I'm sitting there comparing him to you

In the end it's always you
I feel it even more when I come home
I thought that I was free of you
But I was wrong, I never knew
It takes too long to learn to live alone