Not long
ago, I took a very,
very lovely woman to be my wife.
I promise to love, cherish,
and be true to her for the rest of my life.
Oh I guess we may have been married for maybe six
months when another woman came in to my
life.
Oh, she made me believe that
she was so much in love with me
Till you could drive a greyhound bus through her
nose and she would never feel it
She made me believe that the sun
rose and set where I walked at
And she could never
get enough of me
And like a fool, I walked out on my wife
Oh, but that was when
the times were good
And I had hit records
Big crowds were coming to see me
And everybody was trying
to get my autograph
As soon as the hit
re cords were gone
And the crowds were gone
Then she was gone
I would sometime call her house and I'd hear her in the
background tell somebody to tell that fool I'm not here
So the other day I decided I'd call my wife
and ask her could I come back home
But I thought before I asked her could I come home,
I'd tell her what I had learned, and
this is what I told her.
Like a fool, I threw your love away.
Like a fool, I walked out on you that day I was blind,
I couldn't see your love was
Let's turn back time, baby,
because I've been wrong too long
I've been wrong too long
In your arms is where I belong
I have changed my ways,
believe what I say
I've been wrong, wrong,
wrong, too long
Yeah
I found out
A lot of things I didn't know
I found out
That I really, really, really do need you so
Can you forgive
A fool that's been so wrong
This time I'll do it the right way, baby
Cause I've been wrong too long
Oh baby, I've been wrong too long
In your arms is where I belong
I have changed my ways
Believe what I say
I've been wrong, wrong,
wrong too long
Well for a long time
She didn't say a word
And after a while I could hear the
tears in her voice
When she spoke through the receiver
She said,
Clarence, if you mean what you said
Tell me again
And this is what I said
I've been wrong too long
I wanna come back home
In your eyes, it's where I belong
I wanna come back home
I have changed my ways,
believe what I say
I've been wrong, wrong, wrong,
wrong, wrong too long
I've been wrong, wrong,
wrong, too long
Wanna come back home
In your eyes, that's where I belong
Wanna come back home
I have changed my ways,
believe what I say
I've been long, yes I have, I've been long, oh yeah,
I've been long, I've been long, too long, long, too long
I wanna come back home, in your arms,
that's why I've been long, I wanna come back home