Wasted Words - As I Lay Dying

There are days when sorrow seems never-ending

Like the countless roads upon which I’ve driven

The price of attachment in pursuit of dreams

That I so often can’t seem to remember

Yet there are days when beauty cannot be contained

It even crawls out from under ordinary things

A foreigner, no place to go

Holding on, making the most

Of what little time I have

All the wasted words I said

In all the cities that I left

The last act of our precious play

Must not close with regret

I will not leave wishing I had done things differently

The moments I treasure are seldom the ones

That I planned for

And if I knew where pain hid I might still let it go

So when the audience has run toward the latest drift

It will be my time to face the life that I have set

A foreigner in my own home

Holding on, no place to go

All the wasted words I said

In all the cities that I left

The last act of our precious play

Must not close with regret (regret)

All the wasted words

Some days the line between peace

And pain seems more like blur

But I know with certainty

I can’t leave wishing, I cannot leave

I can’t leave wishing I’d done things differently