These Things Take Time

Artists : Smiths, The : These Things Take Time

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind
you took me behind a dis-used railway line
and said "I know a place where we can go
Where we are not known"
and then you gave me something that I won't forget too soon
but I can't believe that you'd ever care
but these things take time
and I know that I'm
the most inept
that ever stepped

I'm spellbound, but a woman divides
and the hills are alive whit celibate cries
but you know where you came from, you know where
you're going and you know where you belong
you said I was ill, and you were not wrong
but I can't believe that you'd ever care
and so, you never cared
but these things take time
and I know that I'm
the most inept
that ever stepped

Oh the alcoholic afternoons
when we sat in your room
they meant more to me
than any living things on earth
they had more worth
than any living thing on earth

Vivid and in your prime
you will leave me behind
you will leave me behind