Lyrics: Shane MacGowan
Music: Shane MacGowan
I've been loving you a long time
Down all the years and all the days
And I've cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways
We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell
I took shelter from a shower
And I stepped into your arms
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms
And I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all of your joys
Whatever happened to that old song?
To all those little girls and boys
Sometimes I'd wake up in the morning
The ginger lady by my bed
Covered in a cloak of silence
I'd hear you talking in my head
Now, I'm not singing for the future
And I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the first times
I never think about the last
And now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still, there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams