Compromise

(album: Ray Wylie Hubbard & The Cowboy Twinkies - 1975)

Shot down by my long lifetime companion
Day broke with a mindful of misunderstanding
The words fell easily into the lines of songs
Spoken not to save you but to show you you could be wrong
Silence seemed to be the answer when we said goodbye
When we said goodbye did you even stop to think
Or slow down and run a love back by

It's gonna be a long long time till the morning
It's gonna be a long long time till then
It's gonna be a long long time till the morning
It looks like I'll sleep without her again

Save me, save me from the sacrifice of your sweet blue eyes
Leave me from the hall too easy compromise
We spoke of love in plainer words
We should have left it unsaid
We overlooked the obvious and we left it there for dead
At the end of a very long song with an old time gospel tune
I guess I'll join a jubilee of alcoholic
Country-western singers howling at the moon

It's gonna be a long long time till the morning
It's gonna be a long long time till then
It's gonna be a long long time till the morning
It looks like I'll sleep without her again

Tell me how long has it been?