[Verse 1]
If you were coming in the fall
I’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn
As housewives do a fly

[Pre-Chorus]
If I could see you in a year
I’d wind the months away

[Chorus]
If you were coming in the fall
I’d brush the summer by
If you were coming in the fall
Oh~~ I would not ask why
But now I cannot tell
The reach of time’s dark wing
It goads me like the bee
That will not name its sting

[instrumental break]

[Verse 2]
If only centuries delayed
I’d count them on my hand
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen’s land

[Chorus]
If you were coming in the fall
I’d brush the summer by
If you were coming in the fall
Oh~~ I would not ask why
But now I cannot tell
The reach of time’s dark wing
It goads me like the bee
That will not name its sting

[Bridge]
But now I do not know
The sting of time’s dark wing

[Final Chorus]
Oh~~ oh~~
If you were coming in the fall
I’d brush the summer by
If you were coming in the fall
Oh~~ I would not ask why

[Outro]
If you were coming in the fall
Oh~~
If you were coming in the fall