Forty-Five Years



Forty-Five Years is a Stan Rogers song covered by Raffi on Adult Entertainment

Lyrics
Where the earth shows its bones of wind-broken stone And the sea and the sky are one For caught out of time, my blood sings with wine And I'm running naked in the sun There's God in the trees, I'm weak in the knees And the sky is a painful blue I'd like to look around, but Honey, all I see is you.

The summer city lights will soften the night Till you'd think that the air is clear And I'm sitting with friends, where forty-five cents Will buy another glass of beer He's got something to say, but I'm so far away That I don't know who I'm talking to Cause you just walked in the door, and Honey, all I see is you

chorus: And I just want to hold you closer than I've ever held anyone before You say you've been twice a wife and you're through with life Oh, but Honey, what the hell's it for? After twenty-three years you'd think I could find A way to let you know somehow That I want to see your smiling face forty-five years from now.

Alone in the lights on stage every night I've been reaching out to find a friend Who knows all the words, sings so she's heard And knows how all the stories end Maybe after the show she'll ask me to go Home with her for a drink or two Now her smile lights her eyes, but Honey, all I see is you

chorus:

Credits

 * Stan Rogers
 * Copyright © 1976 by Fogarty's Cove Music
 * Published by Fogary's Cove Music and Red Beaver Music
 * Used by permission

Musicians

 * Bill Cymbala - drums
 * Bob Doidge - bass
 * Ben Mink - mandolin
 * Raffi - acoustic guitar, vocals
 * Ed Roth - piano, synthesizer
 * Vocal Harmony: Jude Johnson, Garnet Rogers (The Barkettes)
 * Recorded by Bob Lanois at Grant Avenue Studio in Hamilton, Ontario: August, 1977
 * Mastered by Phil Asher at CBS Records, Canada
 * Produced by Don Potter