The Right Wrong - The Dear Hunter

In the dead of night, I’m held in a gaze

My heart has a habit of shedding light on my numerous mistakes

And they wear me down allied with the ghosts of pain that keep me awake

Oh, the past can paralyze if you ponder the paths you didn’t take

With the chance to go back and amend every grievance

How could I resist preventing my demons

From ever existing and making a mess

Of the life that I could have had

Would I return to you

To the love I knew

Or would I have undone

All the good that gives misery meaning

And where could you have gone

The only right I had wronged

Lost in the chapters we changed

Oh, despite all my skeletons, I see

All is as all should be

Still it’s hard not to imagine

How different our lives would be if given the chance

To fix every failure, to rewrite the canon

What character would I be if my conscience was clean

What would become of me

Would I return to you

To the love I knew

Or would I have undone

All the good that gives misery meaning

And where could you have gone

The only right I had wronged

Lost in the chapters we changed

Oh, despite all my skeletons, you see me

With the chance to go back and amend every grievance

How could I resist preventing my demons

From ever existing and making a mess

Of the life that I could have had

Would I return to you

To the love I knew

Or would I have undone

All the good that gives misery meaning

And where could you have gone

The only right I had wronged

Lost in the chapters we changed

Oh, despite all my skeletons, I see

All is as all should be