no time for regret

NO TIME FOR REGRET

Leaving, no time for regret,
he didn’t seem the least upset
when she declared: “Won’t have you back!”
He left her for a doubled track,
a two-time girl he thought would treat
him better than this gal had done.
A hundred times he felt defeat,
and died when learning she had run
away with his best friend, no longer
his best friend, but now his worst,
because he’d surely done him wronger
than any friend had done to him.

He wronged him, and nobody can
whitewash this blackguard of a man.

He wished now that he’d said to her
“Au revoir,” instead of cold “Goodbye.”
Things don’t come back to what they were,
and best times of your life can fly
away like dreams, when your best gal
hooks up with your best friend. “Oy veh!”
he says, regretting his best pal
and taking his best gal away,
though really it’s his fault. For how
he once abandoned her without
regrets he’s surely paying now,
without, I think, the slightest doubt.

He’d wronged her, and nobody can
whitewash this blackguard of a man.

Inspired by Amy Winehouse’s song “Back to Black” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1evzhSast8)

He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy
You went back to what you knew
So far removed from all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I'll go back to black

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to.....

I go back to us

I love you much
It's not enough
You love blow and I love puff
And life is like a pipe
And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,
I go back to
I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black



1/28/10