My time has come, I have to go
I leave you all with no regrets
The life I lived was good to me
But in the end it could not be

'Cause it became much more than I could take
And yet I never ran away
You see ol' friend, I'm just a boy
Who never a chance to grow
And played his hand as best he could
I sang of love, as lovers should

And as the years pass be by
Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry
But without love, I could not be
It was too much, even for me

So it became much more than I could take
And yet I never ran away
They called me king, they made me grand
My voice has swept across the land
But what they never even knew
The songs I sang were all for you