So many beautiful stories are told Of love and affection that's purer than goldThey meet and they love and he makes her his wifeAnd why it can't last is a mystery of lifeI love you, my darling, I've always been trueWherever you go I'll be thinking of youYou say you don't want me, you wish to be freeIf that's what you want, that's the way it will beIt's a mystery of life how someone so sweetCan cast you aside to be dirt at their feetThey'll take you and court you and make you their wifeAnd why it can't last is a mystery of lifeWhen Daddy told Mother till death do us partHe said it and meant it right from the heartBut now it is different how people have changedThe words of the Bible, they don't mean a thingGod made the ocean, the land and the treesHe made the flowers, the birds and the beesWhy he permits all this trouble and strifeThat is just one of the mysteries of lifeIt's a mystery of life how someone so sweetCan cast you aside to be dirt at their feetThey'll take you and court you and make you their wifeAnd why it can't last is a mystery of life