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)
Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely,
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.
Only yesterday

(musical interlude)


Richard Carpenter & John Bettis