Great love of my life how I feel you here beside me Watching the clouds turn red at the close of day And you know I think about you   As the sun goes down and you're far away  Great love of my life I see your face before me As the day goes fading into night And it's all that I can do Not to want you here beside me in the firelight  Instrumental: Great love of my life you know it isn't easy Saying goodbye to the good times that we knew The hard times came and took us   Where we never thought we'd go and left us broken me and you Great love of my life the flames are leaping higher Talking to me in the quiet empty room   So happy and so sad With the twisted pain of love that left too soon   Instrumental: Remember the time we stood laughing like small children caught in the rain And they took our photograph With our arms around each other and our eyes on fire Looking out at the rain running off our hats Great love of my life the first time that we touched we were so hungry It took us by surprise  And it never changed all the years we were as one We tasted it all we paid the price and we paid the price