Sliding Doors

A flashing yellow light
Abandoned intersection
Stars shining bright
And I see my reflection

And then I turned
Suddenly I saw you
Something deep inside me burned
No mortal hand could draw you

Before I turned to walk away
You slowly waved your hand
We've been together
Since that day
As if it all were planned

But it occurs to me
What if we missed our connection?
If somehow I didn't see
And turned the opposite direction?

Sliding doors
A fool ignores
Somehow chooses to believe
We are the masters of our destiny

Would you have walked another singer
Through the arboretum
He'd probably be a ringer
If I squint I can just see him

When you tell me later
I'd say
"He's overrated"
You'd say
"Don't be a hater"
And I'd go home deflated

And I'd fill my journal
With poetic metaphors
And a heartbreak so eternal
And I'd call it
"Sliding doors"

Sliding doors
A fool ignores
Somehow chooses to believe
We are the masters of our destiny

Sliding doors
A fool ignores
Somehow chooses to believe
We're the masters of our destiny

Now many years have passed
Since l last looked you up
I thought that we were meant to last
Somehow I f——d it up

Our mutual acquaintance
Says you're married with a kid
I never had the patience
Although I wish I did

But we don't get to rehearse
There's no second take for me
Perhaps in another universe
It turned out differently

History is filled with shame
Betrayals and with wars
How many can we truly blame on
These goddamn sliding doors?

Sliding doors
A fool ignores
Somehow chooses to believe
We are the masters of our destiny

Sliding doors
A fool ignores
Somehow chooses to believe
We're the masters of our destiny