There Goes My Love—There Goes My Life lyrics

How could you forget the taste of love

when I can still remember?

All the words we said are wasted.

Now it's just a dying ember.

Every thought we shared together

disappeared without a warning.

As the book is closed forever,

so the truth is slowly dawning:

there goes my love—

there goes my life.

In your arms, such sweet seclusion—

only fate knew it was leading

to a heart full of confusion.

Was it just a false illusion?

Maybe even you believed it,

victim of my own creation.

There you were and I conceived it—

so much for imagination.

There goes my love—

there goes my life.

Echoes of your voice surround me—

sympathetic smiles still taunting.

Memories of you around me—

shadows of the past light haunting.

Guilty of complete devotion—

sentenced to a life of longing.

Prisoner of my own emotion—

wanting you but not belonging.

There goes my love—

there goes my life.

• Artist:Petula Clark