NoRegrets

I got a phone call from an old friend of mine
He said "I haven't seen ya 'Doctor' in a long, long time
What say we get together have some brews
and reminence?"
I said ,"For all lifes ups and downs, you know
I'm no perfectionsist"
Don't get me wrong- you are a friend of mine
I've learned to give as good as I get
Expectations fake it
I take it one day at a time
No regrets

I'm not the same person that I used to be you know
My losses and gains have made a change in me
I'm living in the moment cause the futures on the run
I'm never gonna be the man I want to become
I get it wrong - sometimes I get it right
I take my chances and I stagger my bets
Expectations fake it
II take it one day at a time
No regrets

They say take all the time you need
but you can never get it back
It's beaten down and compromised
and swallowed by the cracks
Until guilty by suspicion we're all misunderstood
Keep your eventualitys alive for any likelihood
Ther's no mistakes only lessons to learn
the memories help us not to forget
the living keeps us honest
It's promised a day at a time
No Regrets

Now if it all fell down tomorrow
would it make you feel sad?
Would you need more time to say
that you've wasted what you had?
Or would you be content just to let it slip away
knowing that you've made the most of everyday?
I'm young enoough to give a little and bend
old enough to be quite set in my ways
I listen to my voices
Their choices haven't failed me yet
No regrets

Now some would say I'm out of touch
some would say I've lost tack
That's jsut times way of saying you can never go back
Why do all of our alternatives lead us so astray?
Or is life some grand conspiracy to help us on our way?
I just don't know.
It's hard to let things go
Hard enought to hold onto what you get.
I've learned to overcome the pandemonium
No regrets, Ah, no regrets

Doc's Notes:

This was the very first song we layed down and recorded for the 'Eye Of The Storm' CD and it has the embodiment of the spirit of things yet to come. Now.. Believe it or not, this song started out as a slow accapella sort of number meant to be more of an exercise in vocalese with little or no instrumentation. A chance to full-open hamonize. Not such a bad concept really but we just couldn't seem to make it all come together.

Mark and I are pretty liberal about taking chances with our new songs. Giving them every opportunity to come int their own. We also have a very limited time frame in operation, trying to record all the songs we need for a whole CD. If we both start to feel that a song just isn't cp,ing together at all then we drop it and go for another song to work on.

It was at this point in time when Salem, one of our twelve cats here at Witchwood, found her way into the room and jumped up on the keyboards. As she began to stroll from one end to the other she stepped on all kinds of buttons, starting the drum machine and locking the melody I was playing in full chords along with special effects.

I remember Mark and I just looked at each other for a couple of seconds and without saying a single word we launched into the song from start to finish! We had found the song's groove!! Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Salem had provided it for us.

Hey, you can't make this kind of stuff up!! Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Everything was set in motion for the rest of the album bu Mark and I had no regrets.

One of the hidden agendas of life is to say that it's okay to say goodby to the past. Our releases are a way of progressing. We gain something new and we let something go. The experiences we collect in the course of our lives reveals our personalities. In true measure too, the things we let go of define us. Our old way of looking at circumstances and events, and of relationships. How people change and forget to tell each other.

Every detail is a special piece of information to be found in the legend of the map. Every character trait a reference. However, unlike all the other maps we have come to know, it is always too late to turn back from where we are.... for that part of the map no longer exists. An experienced traveler doesn't take anything for granted. They don't over-estimate or under-estimate anything. The map of our lives not only shows the relationship between ourselves and our surroundings but also our borders and our boundaries within.

Life is a map that exsists to help us find and live fully in the present. Out here where thae active side of infinity is called intent and the best of what is true in us shows us the way.