Headquarters

Until It's Time For You To Go

(Buffy Ste. Marie)

Lead Vocals: Michael Nesmith

Recorded At: RCA Victor Studio C, Hollywood

Date: early 1967

Apparently, Chip Douglas was handed a copy of Michael Blessing's "Until It's Time For You To Go" and he and the Monkees proceeded to rib Mike about his pre-Monkees recording. Nesmith then played the song for them. Nesmith released a fully orchestrated version of the Buffy Ste. Marie song as his last pre-Monkees Colpix single November 10, 1965.

On CD:
Headquarters Sessions (2000), Rhino Handmade RHM2 7715

Lyrics:

I'm not a dream, I'm not an angel, I'm a man

You're not a queen, you're just a woman so hold my hand

We'll make a space in the lives we both had planned

And here we'll stay until it's time for you to go

Yes, we're different world's apart, we're not the same

We laughed and played at the start, as in a game

You could have stayed outside my heart, but in you came

So here you'll stay until it's time for you to go

Don't ask why of me

Don't ask how of me

Don't ask forever of me

Love me now

This love of mine had no beginning, it has no end

I was an oak, now I'm a willow, and I can bend

And though I'll never in my life see you again

Still I will stay until it's time for you to go