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The Road Less Taken


We are the decisions we make. Especially the lustful road we all hope to take Pacing with someone who isn’t fake. You just changed everything I wonder how life without you would go. Perhaps a better life than I currently know This is my chance, I hope. I made that decision How many hearts broke in that collision? Time would show. Looking from the top at those crowded below, Standing on the precipice, Until I finally decide to take a piss And dismiss It like FUCK IT And I tried to find somebody else. In the silence of an eternal flame, Nothing seems the same… The sun was out today Radiating penitent shades of gray And I see you all the more, As if nothing happened before, With all the lonely people attracted to your allure. Because they’ll need it much more than I ever will On this road caught in a tornado of confusion still In the space a millisecond couldn’t fill. Yeah What the hell was I supposed to do? There was never an us, only me and you. Surely as time goes by I might have someone to stand beside As I grow older, And the winters become colder, As the consequences of the road I travelled remain, There will always be a part of my brain To wonder how life with you would go To feel what I’ll never know To ponder you and me, us and we, and such To think, No I can’t love you this much I can’t love you this much No I can’t love you this much I can’t love you this much...
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