Overture

I’ve been told there are those whom you love and those that you leave

And mostly I fall on the latter half of these 

Okay, let’s admit it I fit quite adequately 

In the category of those you’d do well to forget or flea 

But I can’t be okay as the mistake you might say 

You only made on your way to something better

A moment of bliss that’s maybe missed but won’t matter

A friendship that bloomed but was always doomed to fail

A ship full of dreams shared but now long-since sailed

I don’t want to be just a footnote to your fairytale 

I don’t want to be just another long-lost lesson learned 

A bridge long burned, a fork you turned and never looked back

I’m losing track of the facts in the case of those who stabbed mine when I had theirs 

And I’m starting to be scared that my judgement is highly impared 

Though it’s certainly not all your fault or really all mine either

It’s just that I am most commonly the common denominator and besides, there’s

So many people who seem to find happiness everyday 

It can make one wonder if maybe I just don’t work that way 

Is my acquaintance just one of those steps that you’ll take 

On the path to a promised happily ever after 

So you can laugh it off someday so glad you avoided that disaster 

Whether it’s a matter of fate or if I’m my own life-line’s master

The universe is happy either way to watch me fail 

And end up as just a footnote to your fairytale