Joy is far from me

Away I look to the city lights
Smoking a cancer into the night  
Hoping it will make me free  
But joy is far from me  
  
She talks away after making love  
Dressed in silk as dove  
She is all that a woman can be  
Yet joy is still far from me  
   
I work the day away  
From night till the break of day  
I feel free and gay  
Do I really think this is the way?  
   
Love takes the pain away  
For me she sits and prays
I hope she'll be there till the end of days  
Perhaps this may be the way  
   
Her smile lights my soul  
Her breath takes my own  
Her patience is that from old  
Her voice my eternal home  
   
If it be she goes away  
My heart will bleed a river away  
My joy will be away from me  
From life to death I'll be.