Only yesterday

After long enough of being alone

Ev'ryone must face their share of loneliness

In my own time nobody knew

the pain I was goin' thru

And watin' was all my heart could do

Hope was all I had until you came

Maybe you can't see how much you mean to me

You were the dawn breaking the night

The promise of morning light

Filling the world surrounding me

Baby baby

your love's made me

free as a song

singin' for ever

(chorus)

You showed me the way to leave the past

and all it's tears behind me

Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today

since I threw my sadness away

(musical interlude)

Richard CarpenterJohn Bettis