The Road You Didn't Take (Live)

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 anymore
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 refined, 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, once 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?