Loved You Too Soon
©J. D. Carroll
Creative Ventures Music

It was a cloudy day 
                                                                                                                                                                       
And the reason that you gave for leaving     
                                                                                                                                    
Was lost among the times of this season   
                                                                                                   
          And I had been meaning  
                                                                                                                                                
          to ask you to stay                                                                                                                                      

You came around    
                                                                                                                                                           
At the time I was just re-ceiving 
                                                                                                                     
  My degree for de-ceiving     
                                                                                                                         
 But as I was leaving       
                                                                                                                                                                      
you turned my head around                                                                                                                       

    Daffodils and  daisies        you were my    lady        
                                                                                                
    we were half    crazy in the   late afternoon 
                                                                                                                    
    but now you're  going away and I don't know  what to say 
                                                                          
            I    sup-pose I just   loved you too  soon  
                                                                                                        
            I    sup-pose I just    loved you too soon                                                                                                       

 There was a time when life was just a matter of dreaming   
                                                                                             
Of  sharing smiles and scheming       
                                                                                                         
          And never thinking of to-morrow  
                                                                                                                            
as to-day                                                                                                                                                    
                 
 But those times have changed 
                                                                                    
and the plaster smiles have been broken        
                                                                                                   
The bad rhymes have all been spoken  
                                                                                                                                     
And I've lost respect for the token love affair    
                                                                                                                                
I tried to arrange                                                                                                                                       

    Daffodils and daisies you were my lady                                                                                                 
    we were half crazy in the late afternoon                                                                                                 
    but now you're going away  and I don't know what to say                                                                     
    I suppose I just loved you too soon                                                                                                       
    I suppose I just loved you too soon                                                                                                       

I could beg you to stay and make believe this dying dream is working,     
                                                      
            pretend that all the laughter and the joking       
                                                                                                
            was just as real as it  was              
                                                                                                                            
when we first began.                                 

I don't know why I should even try to salvage any dignity      
                                                                     
          Don't know what I would have done any differently  
                                                                                  
           Except perhaps to show you         
                                                                                                                         
           that I cared                                                                                                                                                

    Daffodils and daisies you were my lady                                                                                                 
    we were half crazy in the late afternoon                                                                                                 
    but now you're going away I and I don't know what to say                                                                    
    I suppose I just loved you too soon                                                                 x2 and finish                                      
    I suppose I just loved you too soon