Until It's Time For You To Go is one of Buffy Sainte-Marie's most famous and frequently covered love ballads. The song was written in 1965 and was immediately recognized as a powerful and sensitive composition. The lyrics, simple yet profound, address a love that accepts its own brevity and inevitable separation. The line "we'll make a space in the lives we've planned, and here we'll stay until it's time for you to go" conveys a liberated and mature perspective on love, which was uncommon at the