This could have been you and I You and I nursing our wounds of love Thence a great wreck awaits ashore If we had started a journey with nothing assured This could have been our great little ship Blown away by just a mighty gentle breeze Like thus which gladens the trees This could have been us living in mistrust Of what is wrong and who is first I stayed aloof of thoughts which haunts My emotional being it could likely distort Thoughts of a great wreck at the big open sea