Lady time fly away
   I've been thinking 'bout my yesterday
   Oh, please listen darlin' to my empty prayers
   Sleep inside my dreams tonight
   All I need to know tonight are you and my child
  
   Oh, is he a soldier or is he a dreamer?
   Is he mama's little man?
   Does he help you when he can?
   Or does he ask about me?
  
   Just like a soldier boy
   I been out fighting wars
   That the world never knows about
   But I never win them loud
   There's no crowds around me
  
   But when I get to thinkin'
   'Bout the old days
   When love was here to stay
   I wonder if we'd ever tried
   Oh, what I'd give to hold him.