If you just listened to something else...

There was no excuse for what he did.
But is it so bad to long for chance?
To say "the hell with it," and just plunge right into uncertainty.
She might have hated him for the trick
though she can't deny the single second that she somehow wanted it too.

But then again,

they were only kidding themselves.

There was nothing there but the illusion
of a past that never happened
a present ignored
and a future they can't hold onto.