She was to me As time is to eternity We were so free By Lake Isle of Innersfree My wounds have bled Was it something I left unsaid Where do I go? Seems like aeons of years ago When she lived for me I see her face Then it's gone without a trace Now it's only me By Lake Isle of Innersfree Love sped too fast I look into my future past So be my fate She is gone from me and still I wait And endlessly She was only seventeen You might say in her prime She said we'd do it all, my friend, We'd do it all in time But now a stranger to myself I think about it now and then She was only seventeen I but eight and ten What's become of my life? What's become of my life? Each day I live, each day I die What's become of my life? Each day gone by I learn to live another lie As time goes by As time goes by As time goes by As time goes by ...