Cover art for For a While by Tony Banks
Oct. 8, 19791 viewer

For a While Lyrics

I feel it leading me
Away to I don't know where
I might be back someday
But the people and things will change
And no one will remember me then
Don't need no sympathy
For soon I'll forget everything
I feel it fading now
And I see in the eyes of my love
Tears for how it might have been
It sure felt good for a while
Yes it was good for a while
I found somebody to take my hand
To the promised land of the loved

Now as the night draws in
A dark with no promise of dawn
I feel my eyes grow dim
As I see in the eyes of my love
Tears for how it might have been
It sure felt good for a while
Yes it was good for a while
I found somebody to take my hand
To the promised land of the loved
Yes it was good for a while
It sure felt good for a while
I found somebody to take my hand
To the promised land of the loved

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October 8, 1979
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