It's been a long time a-comin' and I have to carry on   It's been a long time a-comin' but now you're gone      Oh, look at me sittin', starin' at the rain   Knowin' the days that we once knew won't ever come again   Well it seems to strange to really be   So I pinch myself and I find oh, yeah, it's me      It's been a long time a-comin' and I have to carry on   It's been a long time a-comin' but now you're gone      And it's too late to turn, back all the clocks in town   It's too late to take the X from yesterday   Now the die is cast, nothin' happens in the past   So I'll think I'll take a walk out in the rain      Oh, here I go, walkin' down the street in time   I'm never knowin' though I'm tryin' to keep myself in rhyme   Just a while has now become too long   Consequently to you I can say, goodbye, so long, yeah      It's been a long time a-comin' and I have to carry on   It's been a long time a-comin' but now you've gone, you were gone right      And it's too late to turn, back all the clocks in town   It's too late to take the X from yesterday   Now the die is cast, nothin' happens in the past   So I'll think I'll take a walk out in the rain      Oh, here I go, walkin' down the street in time   Never knowin' though I'm tryin' to keep myself in rhyme   Just a while has now become too long   Consequently to you I can say, goodbye, so long, yeah      It's been a long time a-comin' and I have to carry on   It's been a long time a-comin' but now you're gone   But now you're gone, but now you're gone