The Road You Didn't Take - Stephen Sondheim, Eric Michael Gillett

You’re either a poet

Or you’re a lover

Or you’re the famous

Benjamin Stone

You take one road

You try one door

There isn’t time for any more

One’s life consists of either/or

One has regrets

Which one forgets

And as the years go on

The road you didn’t take

Hardly comes to mind

Does it?

The door you didn’t try

Where could it have led?

The choice you didn’t make

Never was defined

Was it?

Dreams you didn’t dare

Are dead

Were they ever there?

Who said?

I don’t remember

I don’t remember

At all

The books I’ll never read

Wouldn’t change a thing

Would they?

The girls I’ll never know

I’m too tired for

The lives I’ll never lead

Couldn’t make me sing

Could they?

Could they?

Could they?

Chances that you miss

Ignore

Ignorance is bliss—

What’s more

You won’t remember

You won’t remember

At all

Not at all

You yearn for the women

Long for the money

Envy the famous

Benjamin Stones

You take your road

The decades fly

The yearnings fade, the longings die

You learn to bid them all goodbye

And oh, the peace

The blessed peace

At last you come to know

The roads you never take

Go through rocky ground

Don’t they?

The choices that you make

Aren’t all that grim

The worlds you never see

Still will be around

Won’t they?

The Ben I’ll never be

Who remembers him?