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Verse 1

Reflecting from my deathbed

 I'm balancing life's riches against the ditches

and the flat gray years in between

 All I can see are the never-laid

 That's the never-played symphonies

Verse 2

I can't see those who tried to love me

All those who felt they understood me

 and I can't see those who very patiently put up with me

 All I can see are the never-laid

 Or the never-played symphonies

->

Chorus

You were one, you meant to be one

and you jumped into my face and laughed

 and kissed me on the cheek and then were gone forever

 ...not quite

Verse 3

Black sky in the daytime

and I don't much mind dying

 When there is nothing left to care for anymore

 Just the never-laid, the never-played symphonies

Chorus

You were one, you knew you were one

and you slipped right thru my fingers

 No not literally but metaphorically

 and now you're all I see as the light fades