You're Too Late
(Lefty Frizzell, H. P. Willis)

If I had someone that's true
It would thrill me through and through
I'd be happy, oh, so happy, night and day
Seems each one has a perfect mate
But for me it's always late
And it kills my soul to hear my sweetheart say

"Too late, too late, you're too late
I have waited oh so long, but you never did come home
So just go on alone, you're too late"

I've built my castles high
Just to watch them fade and die
Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever find a mate
But I'll keep looking o'er the hill
For someone, and I always will
But it just might be my fate to be too late

"Too late, too late, you're too late"
When I search for Heaven's door
I hope those words don't ring no more
And a voice say "here's the gate but you're too late"

© 1954 Unichappell Music Inc.

Bob Dylan's version