I wasn't ready for someone like you
When you came into my life
But there you were so what was I to do
I thought I'd found paradise

I would not be left searching anymore
Because I'd found what I'd been waiting for
I've got to tell you

All this time I didn't know
That you had another before
Don't tell me it's all got to fold when he come home
Don't want to let you go

I could tell that there was something wrong
But just what, I couldn't say
I didn't know about all this before
Not till you told me today

He's coming home now in a week or two
And you're not sure of what you want to do
So I've got to tell you

All this time I didn't know
That you had another before
Don't tell me it's all got to fold when he come home
Don't want to let you go

I don't know if this is wrong or right
But you ought to know
That I've been waiting for you all my life
And I'm not letting you go

I could not love you on a false pretense
So I must stay and face the consequence
And I've got to tell you

All this time I didn't know
That you had another before
Don't tell me it's all got to fold when he come home
Don't want to let you go

NOTES:

Another song recorded at Charles home in Bellevue.  Charles on lead guitars, I am on rhythm guitar and vocals.  (unsure of the other instrumentation).

I was working for the Auburn School District warehouse in the Summer of 1978. While delivering supplies to the High School office I met Adoria Kanistaneux. She was a seventeen year-old girl with a bubbly personality. I was 22 but found her to be a great person to be around.  I had been a popular person while in High School and was doing concerts in the Seattle area so there was a mutual attraction.  She sings back up vocals on a few of these recordings and is seen playing the melodica on the picture above.

Unknown to me, she also had a boyfriend who was off at camp for the summer. This song is about that situation.