Song Description

After a break up sometimes people find that we are better off without the other person.

Lyrics

as they walk through the park on the first of may
they catch the attention of every stranger that day.
I know it's not much, but their hands never touch
and their trivial words
as she's looking left and he's looking right
are not heard
and he knows there will be no more kiss goodnight.
Winter is over but spring won't bring love this time.

As he walks now alone on the first of may
he travels unnoticed but happy things turned out this way.
another year gone, and the winter's been far too long,
and like the trees, whose leaves may have died,
his roots still survive
and he thinks to himself, "just as all things decay,
our love had to die, so we could be alive today."