Phil Collins - Can't Turn Back The Years lyrics

'No matter how much you think you want or need it

The past has to remain just that, the past...'

Could've given you everything that you need

But I cannot turn back the years

The perfect love was all you wanted from me

But I cannot turn back the years

So we have to be strong, and I'm finding that hard

We have to move on

But no matter how hard I try

If your heart's in pieces, you look for the truth

And when I look deep down inside I know

It's too bad I love you

Sometimes hits me in the morning, hits me at night

That I cannot turn back the years

So I look out my window, turn off my light

But I cannot turn back the years

Can't make it seem easy, when you're all that I see

Can't live in a dream

And I won't serenade the truth

People are hurting and they're looking to me

And I look at you, there's nothing more to say

It's too bad I love you

But I'm never gonna give it up

All that I lived for, all that I dreamed

But I cannot turn back the years

You're the water I drink, you're the air that I breathe

But I cannot turn back the years

So we have to be strong, and I'm finding that hard

We have to move on

But no matter how hard I try

If your heart's in pieces, you look for the truth

And when I look deep down inside I know

It's too bad I love you

But I'm never gonna give it up