The Road You Didn't Take

Different men need different things

Knowing what you want, that's the secret

You're either a poet Or you're a lover

Or you're the famous Benjamin Stone

You take one road, You try one door

There isn't time for any more

One's life consists of 'either/or'

One has regrets Which one forgets

And as the years go on

The road you didn't take Hardly comes to mind, does it?

The door you didn't try. Where could it have led?

The choice you didn't make Never was defined, was it?

Dreams you didn't dare Are dead

Were they ever there? Who said?

I don't remember, I don't remember at all

The books I'll never read Wouldn't change a thing, would they?

The girls I'll never know I'm too tired for

The lives I'll never lead Couldn't make me sing

Could they? Could they? Could they?

Chances that you miss, Ignore

Ignorance is bliss- What's more

You won't remember, You won't remember at all

Not at all

You yearn for the women, Long for the money

Envy the famous Benjamin Stones

You take your road, The decades fly

The yearnings fade, the longings die

You learn to bid them all goodbye

And oh, the peace, The blessed peace

At last you come to know

The roads you never take Go through rocky ground, don't they?

The choices that you make Aren't all that grim

The worlds you never see Still will be around, won't they?

The Ben I'll never be, Who remembers him?