Rachel Brooke - Old Faded Memory lyrics

Many years ago, I had a love So pretty, so true, but ever so young Each night we'd meet 'neath the twin oak tree And dream of a life that was never to be It seems only days since I last held her near But my mind is much older, and my memory unclear And though I've seemed to forgotten the reason we've part To this very day, she still owns my heart I wonder, I wonder, if he's thinking of me All those years ago, how it all used to be Our love, true it was, I could never forget But each day since our parting, I've spent in regret Would he still love me, now I'm withered and gray? My daylight grows dim, and short are the days May I be young and fair, in the dreams dreamt by him But I'm just an old faded memory of what could have been Her Love, like a flower that clings to the vine Her love, how it lingers upon my old mind Oh the nights that I've spent 'neath that twin oak tree Just hoping she'd be there, just waiting for me I'd give my own life just to see her once more But I know in my heart, I won't be waiting for long For my mind, it grows darker than each day before And my heart, though its beating, has nothing to beat for If only my life could have lasted forever Oh the things I'd have done, Darling, we'd be together But time that is given, is cruel and deceiving For my body has weakened, and beauty is fleeting Faster and faster, so go the days As I cling to a life that is slipping away And with my last breath, unto d**h may I stare I'll remember the life that we never shared