This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the It¡¯s About Time Album, and has also been released on The Country Roads Collection. A live version also appears on The Wildlife Concert Album.


This is what it¡¯s like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it¡¯s all over
This is just the way true love ends

First of all there¡¯s no one to talk to
When there is they just don¡¯t seem to hear
Words don¡¯t seem to matter much anyway
They can¡¯t describe the pain
They can¡¯t explain the fear

Then the nights grow cold and hard to live through
Still you hate to see the morning come
Somehow tomorrow doesn¡¯t matter much anymore
The future holds no promise
Your life¡¯s already done

This is what it¡¯s like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it¡¯s all over
This is just the way true love ends

The you find your heart no longer flutters
You no longer look through a lover¡¯s eyes
What¡¯s to see when the world falls down around you
You simply can¡¯t believe it
But it comes as no surprise

This is what it¡¯s like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it¡¯s all over
This is just the way true love ends

What¡¯s the sense of failure
It¡¯s such an incredible loss
It¡¯s all the things you¡¯ll never do
And all the dreams that will never come true

This is what it¡¯s like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it¡¯s all over
This is just the way true love ends
Oh this is just the way a true love ends
I don¡¯t believe a true love ever ends

Words and music by John Denver