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Lost Opportunity

from These Broken Years by Mad Mar Walker

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This track is another recorded around 1984 or 1985. Love was confusing then and never changed. I am not one who ever could "read" the signals. Never figured it out either.

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LOST OPPORTUNITY

by Mad Mar Walker

I think of you in the middle of the night
but you're too far away
I can taste your mouth and
hear you purring in your sensual way
I don't suppose I will see you for a while
(Maybe you'll call)
You're busy chasing, I bet,
some little doll to match your style
(I wish it was me)
But I will chalk it up and write it off
as a lost opportunity.
Chalk it up, as a lost opportunity.

I not much good as a flirt
and I have never beena tease.
If I touch you at all
it's 'cause I'm willing to please.
Couldn't you smell the brimstone
that smokes up my soul?
I was to shy to ask.
I was hoping you wouldn't go...
It's not the times I've been wild
that I ever regret,
It's the loving I missed
I can't seem to forget.
And you must be
just as foolish as me;
we could have had it all
so very easily.

I read Dostoevsky and Nietzsche
with competent grace
but I even miss the obvious
when I read your face
I thought you were leaving
You thought I was messing with your mind
In the gripe of desire
we are deaf and dumb
and blind so blind
If you're willing spell it out
don't expect that I will guess
If we leave things to fate
fate will leave things a mess
So won't you please
take another look?
Some things are worth
the bit of trouble they took....

I think of you in the middle of the night
but you're too far away
I can taste your mouth and
hear you purring in your sensual way
I don't suppose I will see you for a while
(Maybe you'll call)
You're busy chasing, I bet,
some little doll to match your style
(I wish it was me)
But I will chalk it up and write it off

another disagreeable lesson that I've learned now
didn't even have the chance to get my self burned
Not this time. Chalk it up
as a lost opportunity.

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from These Broken Years, released January 1, 2010

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