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If I'd have known what would happen
After I let you walk away
I would have never said those words to you.
I would have never let you leave
If I would have seen the years to follow
Play out before my eyes.
If I would have been afforded the movie
The picture show of words and actions
Effects following causes
Newton's law of motion imposed upon
A man and a woman in love.
I wouldn't have dared speak to you
The way that I spoke to you, love.

For I live in the shadow of those words
Day by day.

Day by day
There is nothing but
The flickering ghost
Of your presence haunting me.
Day by day
I only see that moment.
That final conversation
With all its pitiful ignorance
Of time, space
Life, the universe
Everything
All the stupidity
Of a man
Who had given up
Too soon.

I live in the shadow of your presence
Unable to touch the intangible
Day by day.

If I would have known
The stars would have become duller
In the midnight sky they inhabit
And the world would have tilted from its axis
That slight millimeter
Just enough to throw my planet
Out of alignment.
I would have sooner prayed to become mute
Than to speak the lines
Written in the script for me to say.
If I would have known what was to take place
In the next act; the next scene
Read ahead in the script.
I wouldn't have dared speak to you
The way that I spoke to you, love.

For I reside in the chill of the evening
Night by night.

Night by night
I feel the brush
Of a ghost's lips
Upon mine
Waking only to find smoke
When I open my eyes
I sense the emptiness
And longing
The absence of a piece
To the simple puzzle that was
You and me.
Two parts of a whole
Rent apart by
My words.

I live in the shadow of your presence
Unable to touch the intangible
Night by night.

Each breath I take
Each minute I exist
Each night and day
I find myself saying,
If only I would have known.

Description
If I'd have known what would happen
After I let you walk away
I would have never said those words to you.
I would have never let you leave
If I would have seen the years to follow
Play out before my eyes.
If I would have been afforded the movie
The picture show of words and actions
Effects following causes
Newton's law of motion imposed upon
A man and a woman in love.
I wouldn't have dared speak to you
The way that I spoke to you, love.

For I live in the shadow of those words
Day by day.

Day by day
There is nothing but
The flickering ghost
Of your presence haunting me.
Day by day
I only see that moment.
That final conversation
With all its pitiful ignorance
Of time, space
Life, the universe
Everything
All the stupidity
Of a man
Who had given up
Too soon.

I live in the shadow of your presence
Unable to touch the intangible
Day by day.

If I would have known
The stars would have become duller
In the midnight sky they inhabit
And the world would have tilted from its axis
That slight millimeter
Just enough to throw my planet
Out of alignment.
I would have sooner prayed to become mute
Than to speak the lines
Written in the script for me to say.
If I would have known what was to take place
In the next act; the next scene
Read ahead in the script.
I wouldn't have dared speak to you
The way that I spoke to you, love.

For I reside in the chill of the evening
Night by night.

Night by night
I feel the brush
Of a ghost's lips
Upon mine
Waking only to find smoke
When I open my eyes
I sense the emptiness
And longing
The absence of a piece
To the simple puzzle that was
You and me.
Two parts of a whole
Rent apart by
My words.

I live in the shadow of your presence
Unable to touch the intangible
Night by night.

Each breath I take
Each minute I exist
Each night and day
I find myself saying,
If only I would have known.