The day after my eighth birthday, my father told me…
We were moving. These are devastating words to hear at the end of summer break! Now what is going to happen? What about my friends? A new school, what will I do? So many thoughts ran through my mind then, and none of them would have prepared me for what really happened! …
This is the song fiction I created based on some feelings from the song “What Might Have Been” by Little Texas. The following is the lyrics in bold and my writing within it.
New Roads
Sure I think about you now and then But it’s been a long, long time I’ve got a good life now, and I’ve moved on
It used to be every waking moment. He was in my mind, my heart. He was me. There was a time when that was all that was needed. Time has moved by. Life has changed me. I have started to see my own way in life, follow my own path.
So when you cross my mind… I try not to think about what might have been Cause that was then And we have taken different roads
There is more to life than what used to be. Who I am is changed. The person who was is no more, in her place stands another, equally great. No need for what ifs, no need for what could be. New paths have fallen before me, forging a new trail.
We can’t go back again There’s no use givin in And theres no way to know What might have been
No reason to relive old times. Our lives are different now. Things have changed and moved on. Never will time go back to how things were. There is no window to the past, and no reason to try.
We can sit and talk about this all night long And wonder why we didn’t last Yes, they might be the best days we will ever know But we’ll have to leave them in the past…
Time has come to move on. Not sit and dwell on why things have changed. Times were great, take from that what it gave us. Give new life to what we have now! Create a new page in life, forge a new road.
So try not to think about what might have been Cause that was then And we have taken different roads
New roads stand before me each and every day. Follow new turns and climb new mountains. See things from a different place every season!
We can’t go back again There’s no use givin in And theres no way to know What might have been
Every day a new surprise. A new valley to find. Why stay in the hills of the past, move forward. Don’t look back, someone new arises in you each day!
That same old look in your eyes It’s a beautiful night, I’m so tempted to stay But too much time has gone by We should just say good bye, and turn and walk away…
You appear the same to me. It is easy to stay. To pretend nothing has changed. But things are different, in us both. Really we should not be who we were, when we are someone new. Temptations are great, to be something of old, something I know. But the real journey lies in finding a new way… Saying goodbye
And try not to think about what might have been
Cause that was then
And we have taken different roads
We can’t go back again
There’s no use givin in
And theres no way to know
What might have been
No we’ll never know, what might have been
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