Tough never quits
Love never dies
All wounds heal
Realize
You just gotta have hope
Just keep it real
Don’t lie to yourself
Think and feel
Always stay strong
Life is for living
C’mon, C’mon

Live for love
Be kind to all
Keep your head up
Reach for the sky
Be a good friend
You know why
Be at your best
Believe in yourself
In a quest for excellence
Take time to rest

Smell the roses
Find a mate
Be an optimist
You are great
Live for love
To all relate

All for you baby
You’re always number one
I’ve had other lovers
But they’re over with and gone
It’s just you and me from now on
The way it shall be
It’s you I love
It’s you and me

Can we make it together?
You asked, as we lay side to side
I nodded yes, I knew inside
We are true lovers
We are meant to be

It’s knowing and believing
Faith and hope combined
Perfect clarity
Two lives defined
The future so bright
Our souls entwined

So good it felt
So good it still feels
We found our truth
It’s you and me

That it happened so easily is the surprise
We’d been friends for a long time
The widow and me
After Lorna passed, we used to walk
Down on the esplanade on warm summer nights
Have a glass of wine
See the sights of life passing by
Wondering if that had happened to us
That life passed us by

It was the music on the bandstand
That spoke to us
And the first time we touched
I held her close as we listened
And swayed during the dusk
As she turned to me and with a smile, said
“Let's give it a try.”
We became shadows in the light of the moon
Dancing into the night
And then into forever
It just seemed right
It has since then
Everything’s all right
In fact better than that
You better believe
We danced into a dream

It’s complicated
Who I really am
There are many lovers who absconded with my heart
It’s complicated
I have loved many
I still do
But they are gone
I’m not blameless
How many have I hurt?
It’s complicated
So I run
But there is nowhere to run
Just obstacles from my past
There to haunt and taunt
Yes, there were good times
But what about the bad times?

What is this emotion that comes over me?
A melancholy memory has arrived and will not leave
Not for the first time
It comes and goes at will
Time does not stop it
And I don’t have the will
Sometimes I savor those moments in the sun
Other times I belabor why it all went wrong
Sometimes I just sit and think about the good old days
Then I shrug my shoulders
Try to not get crazed
I do count my blessings for the joys I have known
I’m lucky to have had these memories
I have grown into them
They are mine to own
So rich they are in happiness
But those winds have blown
Yes, there is a horizon
But I’m often looking back

I looked back in anger
I look back in sorrow
I looked back
I can’t stop myself
I’m always looking back
I miss the good times
I hate the bad times
They only bring me
What have I learned?
Where is the tomboy I loved is a child?
Where is my high school romance?
Whatever happened to Betsy?

That was at university
I didn’t know what I was doing then
Not sure I still do
But Betsy, Betsy was cool
Sometimes I check her out on the Internet
But I can’t call her
I’d just be a fool

You can’t take away the past
But it’s not going anywhere
The memories do last
But they’re going nowhere
They can keep you company
But they’re no substitute
When the train leaves the station
It takes your heart en route
To the blue horizon
Where dreams go to rest
You give thanks for the good times
Even though that’s all that’s left

Past perfect is grammatically correct
Along with question marks and exclamation points
That signal the shipwreck
That shall languish in the sands of time
No longer to sail the seas of romance
Slumbering on the reef of disappointment
It had its chance
But that ship long ago sailed
Only ghosts shadow dance

If I’m being elliptical
There’s a reason why
I don’t need to name names
The two of us would cry
If I made it public
In private we forever sigh
We had our once upon a time
Then we said goodbye