Miss You Nights

I've had many times
I can tell you
Times when innocence
I'd trade for company

And children saw me crying
I thought I'd had my share of that
But these miss you nights
Are the longest

Midnight diamonds
Stud my heaven
Southward burning
Lie the jewels that eye my place

And the warm winds
That embrace me
Just as surely kissed your face
But these miss you nights
Are the longest

How I miss you?
I'm not likely to tell
I'm a man and cold day light
Buys the pride I'd rather sеll
All my secrets
Are a wastеd affair
You know them well

Thinking of my going
How to cut the thread and leave it all behind
Looking windward for my compass
I take each day as it arrives
But these miss you nights
Are the longest

Lay down all thought of your surrender
It's only me who's killing time
Lay down all dreams and themes once remembered
It's just the same
This miss you game

These miss you nights
Are the longest