No Chance - Regret - Lou Reed

    It must be nice to be steady, it must be nice to be firm
    It must be nice never to move off the mark
    It must be nice to be dependable and never let anyone down
    It must be great to be all the things you're not
    It must be great to be all the things that I'm not

    I see you in the hospital your humor is intact
    I'm embarrassed by the strength I seem to lack
    If I was in your shoes
    so strange that I'm not
    I'd fold up in a minute and a half
    and I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

    It must be nice to be normal it must be nice to be cold
    It must be nice not to have to go oh up or down
    But me I'm all emotional no matter how I try
    you're gone and I'm still here alive
    and I didn't get a chance to say goodbye
    No - I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

    There are things we say we wish we knew and in fact we never do
    But I'd wish I'd known that you were going to die
    Then I wouldn't feel so stupid, such a fool that I didn't call
    And I didn't get a chance to say goodbye
    I didn't get a chance to say goodbye

    No there's no logic to this - who's picked to stay or go
    If you think too hard it only makes you mad
    But your optimism made me think you really had it beat
    So I didn't get a chance to say goodbye
    I didn't get a chance to say goodbye
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