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Starlight and Gold

Lyrics and Music ©1989 by Bill Roper


If you love something and leave it, don't count on it being there when you come back looking for it. There are times that you won't be nearly that lucky.

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When I was a young man, I promised you starlight,
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And when I was older, I promised you gold.
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Now I'm an old man, alone here so late at night,
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And all that I want is to have you to hold.

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	I was a sailor and I was a rover,
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	Adrift on the dark seas of space.
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	You were a lady, so warm and so tender
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	With laughter than danced cross your face.


When I was a young man, I promised I'd love you,
But when I was older, I left you behind.
Now I'm an old man still lost thinking of you,
Chasing the memory locked in my mind.

	I wanted to hold you and love you forever,
	But I was too foolish to stay.
	You looked so downhearted and told me I'd never
	Come back if I once went away.

When I was a young man, I sailed on the starways,
But when I was older, I left them behind.
And I'd trade all the wealth of my star-roving free days
If I could sail back on the dark seas of time.

	When I returned with my purse heavy laden
	To take you away for my own,
	I could not find you, my pretty young maiden,
	Whose love had at last called me home.

When I was a young man, I promised you starlight,
And when I was older, I promised you gold.
Now I'm an old man alone here so late at night,
And all that I want is to have you to hold.