If only you'd been wearing that sign on your heart,
Well, I never would have tried to come in.
I've heard that true love can make you survive
When a pushin comes to a shove.
But I may as well have tried to hold back the tide
As to try and go and win your love.
* So throw me a penny in the wishing well
Keep knocking my fist from the wood.
Sometimes I got to laugh at this funny old world,
When crying seems to do me no good.
There were nights when I wander on the streets alone,
I see your face in the stars above.
But I may as well have tried to hold back the tide,
As to try and go and win your love.
There's a sign on the hotel doorway
That says no vacancy.
If only I'd known you felt that way,
I could have smiled and walked on by.
I've heard that true love can lift you off your feet,
As if you had the wings of a dove.
But I may as well have tried to hold back the tide
As to try and go and win your love. ( * )
