best regrets

i keep my head low as i enter the square

don't know what to think or who might be there

been scared for so long. so long it's not true

but i rue this day and i rue you too

but i knew you in your time when alarm-bells filled our minds

and what was happening was happening with ten quarters and five dimes

now there's not much left to say. it's just excuses for today

so let's just save the list for the optimists

someone said they're on their way

so some guy once wrote betrayal takes two

i guess i outta know since i think that's true

i'm sorry that you

so strange for so long

can not reanimate what is already gone

but we could talk right through the night

under a pitch-black moonless sky

and what was possible was possible with no one asking why

and i loved you when you ran. round in circles round with plans

without permission or suspicions. you even tolerated slang