Things You've Never Done

When you were younger

Blue-eyed boy wonder

Never used to ponder

On what life may hide

Now you're older

The nights are so much colder

Never even told her

How you feel inside

You were so proud

With your head up in the white clouds

She'd call you so loud

But you'd never know

Now that you're wiser

You'd never compromise her

Every day you'd realise her

But this bird has flown

And you've blown out all your candles one by one

And you curse yourself for things you've never done

She would wait for you

Idolize, adore you

Love and reassure you

You couldn't let it be

You let it linger

Slip on through your fingers

So that September

She moved across the sea

How your face dropped

And how your heart stopped

Sitting at the bus stop

When they told you that she'd gone

So you run to the harbour

Need to tell her that you love her

As the boat disappears

You never felt so alone

'Cause you've blown out all your candles one by one

And you curse yourself for things you never done

Where were you when her hour of need had come?

Now you curse yourself for things you've never done

Now your grandson, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, handsome

Calls you up from London and sits and asks you, "Why?"

So you answer, "Don't be scared of failure

The only failure is never to try"

Never to try

Never to try

Never to try

And where were you when her hour of need had come?

Now you curse yourself for things you've never done