No Chance (Regret) - Lou Reed

It must be nice to be steady, it must be nice to be firm

It must be nice never to move off the mark

It must be nice to be dependable and never let anyone down

It must be great to be all the things you’re not

It must be great to be all the things that I’m not

I see you in the hospital your humor is intact

I’m embarrassed by the strength I seem to lack

If I was in your shoes

So strange that I’m not

I’d fold up in a minute and a half

And I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye

It must be nice to be normal it must be nice to be cold

It must be nice not to have to go oh up or down

But me I’m all emotional no matter how I try

You’re gone and I’m still here alive

And I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye

No — I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye

There are things we say we wish we knew and in fact we never do

But I’d wish I’d known that you were going to die

Then I wouldn’t feel so stupid, such a fool that I didn’t call

And I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye

I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye

No there’s no logic to this — who’s picked to stay or go

If you think too hard it only makes you mad

But your optimism made me think you really had it beat

So I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye

I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye