Lover Come Back

This morning on my way home from practice, I started listening to a radio show with Dallas Green about his songwriting and music career. It was really interesting. He said melodies are easy but lyrics are hard, and he feels pressure to have each song he writes be better than the last.

This song isn't about anything novel, but I think the lyrics are pretty solid:

Bound for trouble from the start
I've been walking through this old world in the dark
All along right by my side
There you were shining, my ray of light

I sing lover come back, lover come back to me
Won't you ever come back, ever come back to me
How could I have been so foolish to let you leave
Lover come back, lover come back to me

I'll never be as good as I'd like to be
Eternally restless refusing to believe
But I think that we missed our connection
I wanted to feel your affection
Until my final days

I hear you on those last few lines, Dallas, but who am I to say what should have happened, or what should happen going forward?

I used to feel this way:

I sing lover come back, lover come back to me
Won't you ever come back, ever come back to me
How could I have been so foolish to let you leave
Lover come back, lover come back to me

But these days, not so much. While it will always be a possibility for me that the New Englander will take charge of his well-being, heal, and return to me a whole man ready to jump in with both feet, I can see now that there's a lot better possibility that a whole, new man will find me and teach me what I need to learn in this next phase of my life...