Lyrics

Well I have seen the sunshine and I've seen the pouring rain / Driven through the mountains and upon the greatest plains / And everywhere I travelled I always thought of you / Still I'm just beginning to learn to live with the pain of losing you

Engraved upon my mind is the day you caught my eye / You smiled at me so sweetly all that I could say was Hi / My given name is Joseph, though my friends all call me Jay / And I do believe I just might fall in love with you someday / You smiled again on hearing this and you whispered in my ear / That you had seen me coming in your dreams now for a year / You leaned to me and pressed your lips upon my windburned brow / We began to make the plans to run away somehow

I have seen the sunshine and I've seen the pouring rain / Driven through the mountains and upon the greatest plains / And every day I travelled I always thought of you / And still I'm just beginning to learn to live with the pain of losing you

That summer in the foothills was the greatest of my life / We talked about the kids we'd have and how you'd be my wife / The sparkle in your eyes shone brighter than the stars / When you told me that you loved me in the back seat of my daddy's car / But then upon one August night your daddy came to know / That we had planned it secretly to run away to Chicago / And he said no little girl of his would ever run away / With a city boy from Illinois before his dying day

Now I have seen the sunshine and I've seen the pouring rain / Ridden on the oceans and upon the fastest trains / Yeah I've done all the things that you and I we said we'd do / And still I'm just beginning to learn to live with the pain of losing you

Copyright 2001, Colin Black