Follies movie - THE ROAD YOU DIDN'T TAKE lyrics

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BEN:<br>

You're either a poet<br>

Or you're a lover<br>

Or you're the famous<br>

Benjamin Stone.<br>

You take one road,<br>

You try one door,<br>

There isn't time for any more.<br>

One's life consists of either/or.<br>

One has regrets<br>

Which one forgets,<br>

And as the years go on.<br>

The road you didn't take<br>

Hardly comes to mind,<br>

Does it?<br>

The door you didn't try,<br>

Where could it have led?<br>

The choice you didn't make<br>

Never was defined.<br>

Was it!<br>

Dreams you didn't dare<br>

Are dead.<br>

Were they ever there?<br>

Who said!<br>

I don't remember,<br>

I don't remember<br>

At all.<br>

The books I'll never read<br>

Wouldn't change a thing,<br>

Would they?<br>

The girls I'll never know<br>

I'm too tired for.<br>

The lives I'll never lead<br>

Couldn't make me sing.<br>

Could they? Could they? Could they?<br>

Chances that you miss.<br>

Ignore.<br>

Ignorance is bliss--<br>

What's more,<br>

You won't remember,<br>

You won't remember<br>

At all,<br>

Not at all.You yearn for the women,<br>

Long for the money,<br>

Envy the famous<br>

Benjamin Stones.<br>

You take your road,<br>

The decades fly,<br>

The yearnings fade, the longings die.<br>

You learn to bid them all goodbye.<br>

And oh, the peace,<br>

The blessed peace...<br>

At last you come to know:<br>

The roads you never take<br>

Go through rocky ground,<br>

Don't they?<br>

The choices that you make<br>

Aren't all that grim.<br>

The worlds you never see<br>

Still will be around,<br>

Won't they!<br>

The Ben I'll never be,<br>

Who remembers him?<br>

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