Verse 1 I tumble from my bed And wonder what I could do today The sky is just as cloudy As the thoughts that keep getting in my way I make myself a coffee In the same mug I've used for years I stare out at the front lawn And watch another morning disappear Verse 2 My mind goes drifting backwards To another time that looked like this And there among those memories Are the loved ones that I miss Chorus Its a cloudy autumn morning Just like so many gone before And I'm sittin here just thinking That I can't bear too many more These lonely, empty moments Watching life just slipping by With a coffee cup in my hand And memories beneath a cloudy sky Verse 3 I put my old shoes on And take a walk down to the dam And I wonder if there's anybody Who still cares just how I am Just as the years passed And the time kept slipping by The phone calls and the visits Slowly faded, and I don't know why Verse 4 Seems the older that I get The less they all need me around They've got their own lives to live And their feet are on new ground There is no time to visit The old folks they once admired And so I'll go on sitting With a heart that's growing tired Bridge I never thought the day would come When these thoughts would cross my mind Just wondering where the years have gone And how they've passed me by Growing up and moving on Is the natural thing to do I only wish they'd stop a while Before my story's through Chorus Its a cloudy autumn morning Just like so many gone before And I'm sittin here just thinking That I can't bear too many more These lonely, empty moments Watching life just slipping by With a coffee cup in my hand And memories beneath a cloudy sky Outro Its a cloudy autumn morning Watching life just slipping by With my coffee cup in my hand And dried tears ... in my eye
