Song for Old Lovers

You thought our lives could not be mended

Our love's been strained for twenty years

A thousand times I swore I'd end it

A thousand times I left in tears

Now looking at this lonely floor

Each room a memory of times

When our tempers here exploded

Now we are different from before

You have a calm that matches mine

Our taste for conquest soon eroded

I love you still

My sweet, my tender love

I love you still

I'll love you always and I always will

Now more than ever I adore you

I've always known of your flirtations

Just as you've always known of mine

You've often saved me from temptation

I've often lost you for a time

You've taken lovers to your bed

Only a pastime you have said

It's just the body's effervescence

At last we've managed to forget

And be our age without regret

Leaving behind our adolescence

I love you still

My sweet, my tender love

I love you still

I've loved you always and I always will

Now more than ever I adore you

The passing days no longer haunt us

Time's torments are rather brief

And though our temperaments still taunt us

Instead of turmoil there's relief

Now I cry not quite so soon

You fall apart not quite so much

When we fight we are less unbending

We do not need a safe cocoon

We are open to each other's touch

This tender war is never ending

I love you still, yes

My sweet, my tender love

I love you still

I've loved you always and I always will

My darling, I

I adore you