Time is a healer and time is a thief,

It will rob you blind but it will heal your grief,

And though I'm young I feel a shiver of fear,

Every time I feel night drawing near.

But hold me close and hold me tight

And in this dark there'll be a shimmer of light.

Because I know a way time I can kill,

with your arms wrapped around me all clocks would stand still.

And there we'd be, silently at peace

and as our fingers entwine

all thoughts would cease.

And worries about the fading of youth

would begin to unwind,

begin to come loose.

The church's chiming bells would be transformed

as love, like day has finally dawned.

Please don't let me be like the Princess of Cleves,

trapped inside her mind while her heart slowly bleeds.

So i'll meet you in the night- time where my sorrow you can't see,

and then maybe at loves' threshold there approaching you will be

I know that what I need is some time without your face

To wipe form my mind every track and every trace.

And when the storm is over I will throw away this crutch,

Crippled no longer by the absence of your touch,

And my heart will start to feel again after being dead,

and will longer at the absence of words said.

But i'll forever echo those words within my heart,

that look to the end as well as the start

And even in my darkest hour i shall never lose the hope

That one day when I shiver, you'll shield me with your coat.

'So I'll love you dear i'll love you 'til Africa and China meet

And the river jumps over the mountain,

And the Salmon sing in the street.'

I'll be the piano and you'll be the drums,

you'll keep the beat while the melody runs

my childish games will vanish into air,

whilst my mind warns of love's hidden lair

but it will be too late,

my heart will be lost

pain- love's ransom,

death- the cost.

But I'll continue to love you, until my dying day,

so the Devil and his demons will never have their way,

and the hounds of time will lose their grip,

for no longer i will I fear Time passing quick.

So free my heart from the chains that surround,

make it free to leap and free to bound

because nothing imprisons like love unrequited,

so kiss me and all wrong will be righted.