Summer Highland Falls Lyrics - Peter, Paul & Mary

They say that these are not the best of times 

But they're the only times I've ever known 

And I believe there is a time for meditation 

In cathedrals of our own 

Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes 

And I can only stand apart and sympathize 

For we are always what our situations hand us, 

It's either sadness or euphoria...sadness or euphoria. 

So we'll argue and we'll compromise and realize 

That nothing's really changed. 

For all our mutual experience our separate conclusions 

Are the same. 

Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity 

Our reason co-exists with our insanity 

And though we choose between reality and madness 

It's either sadness or euphoria...sadness or euphoria. 

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies 

Perhaps we don't fulfill each other's fantasies 

And so we stand upon the ledges of our lives 

With our expected similarities...it's either sadness or euphoria. 

(repeat last verse)