It's been a long time a comin' And I have to carry on It's been a long time a comin' But now you're gone Oh, look at me Sittin' starin' at the rain Knowin' the days that we once new Won't ever come again Well it seems too strange to really be So I pinch myself and I find Whew, yeah, it's me It's been a long time a comin' And I have to carry on It's been a long time a comin' But now you're gone And it's too late to turn Back all the clocks in town It's too late take the x From yesterday Now the die is cast Nothin' happens in the past So I think I'll take a walk Out in the rain Hmmm, here I go Walkin' down a street in time Never knowin' though I'm tryin' to keep myself in rhyme Just a while has now become too long Consequently to you I can say Goodbye, So long, yeah! It's been a long time a comin' And I have to carry on It's been a long time a comin' But now you're gone (Here we go Rust) And it's too late to turn Back all the clocks in town It's too late to take the x From yesterday Now the die is cast Nothin' happens in the past So I think I'll take a walk Out in the rain Hmmm, here I go Walkin' down a street in time Never knowin' though I'm tryin' to keep myself in rhyme Just a while has now become too long Consequently to you I can say Goodbye, So long, yeah! It's been a long time a comin' And I have to carry on It's been a long time a comin' But now you're gone But now you're gone But now you're gone