So often as I wait for sleep,
I find myself reciting
The words I've said or should have said
Like scenes that need rewriting,
The smiles I never answered,
Doors perhaps I should have opened,
Songs forgotten in the morning
I relive the roles I've played,
The tears I may have squandered,
The many pipers I have paid
Along the roads I've wandered
Yet all the time I knew it,
Love was somewhere out there waiting
Though I may regret a kiss or two
If I had changed a single day
What went amiss or went astra