This is one of the earliest “complete” songs I ever wrote and one of the few early songs I can still play. I originally wrote the song as a poem, see below, so you can see how much it changed from being a poem to being a song.
Here is the lyric for the recording above.
Here is the original poem that formed the basis of the song. I wrote the poem when I was 18 and the song probably 2 or 3 years later.