Intro Verso 1: Well there's no use hanging onto anything That you can't take with you when you're gone: The wind at your heels The shadow so sweet of sentimental longing for the past All these things uncaptured, gone, or might have been In the slow, dull dying of the day I ponder on these things I've done A heart I could have chosen not to break But oh, I ran, I ran so easily Casting no shadow in my wake In chase, so manly, then I soon get bored And honey, I'm such a flake Verso 2: So the road won't rise to meet me as I go And this feckless heart knows no reward For all my lies, I apologize It was me, it wasn't you And now I know Instrumental: But oh, I ran, I ran so easily Casting no shadow in my wake In chase, so manly, then I soon get bored And honey, I'm such a flake Verso 3: Still, it does no good for one to think of things That you can't do anything about But in solitary hours, I think of you now It was me, it wasn't you And now I know