Repentance

[VIII. Regret]

Hello, Mirror

So glad to see you my friend

It's been a while

Staring at the empty page before me

All the years of wreckage running through my head

Patterns of my life I thought adorned me

Revealing hurtful shame and deep lament

Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me

As the pen begins to trace my darkest past

Signs throughout my life that should have warned me

Of all the wrongs I've done for which I must repent

I once thought it better to regret

Things that I have done then haven't

Sometimes you've got to be wrong

Learn the hard way

Sometimes you've got to be strong

When you think it's too late

Staring at the finished page before me

All the damage now so clear and evident

Thinking about the dreaded task in store for me

A pit of fear at the thought of my amends

Hoping that this step will help restore me

To face my past and ask for forgiveness

Cleaning up my dirty side of this unswept street

Could this be the beginning of the end?

I once thought it better to regret

Things that I have done then haven't

Sometimes you've got to be wrong

Learn the hard way

Just when you're through hanging on

You're saved

[IX. Restitution]

[Corey Taylor]

Until that moment, I'd never felt like I'd failed at anything

And I felt like I failed her

And I failed myself, and I failed my children

It's still really hard to deal with

[Steve Vai]

I want to thank you for helping me to see my own selfishness

And to tell you how regretful I am it has hurt you

[Chris Jericho]

I'm sorry I didn't visit you in the hospital, Grandpa

When you were on your deathbed

I'm sorry I didn't come to your funeral

I don't know if I was selfish or just too scared to face it

It's one of the biggest regrets of my life

[David Ellefson]

I'm here to confess with you that what I did, was wrong

And I'm asking for your forgiveness

[Steve Hogarth]

The only unforgivable thing hauls itself out of bed

Looks over my shoulder at the bloody English weather

[Joe Satriani]

I really regret not being able to see my friend Andy

[Mikael Åkerfeldt]

One of my best friends who's the godfather of my daughter

He asked me to sing or play something at his wedding

And I turned it down because I was busy and too much of a chickenshit to do it

And I feel sorry for that, because it was a very very close friend of mine

[Steven Wilson]

So, I wanted to apologize to anyone that I've upset or offended

They're just words, it's just an opinion, but unfortunately

I tend to express it as a fact, and that's kind of arrogant

[Jon Anderson]

I think it's the betrayal

It still haunts me

[Neal Morse]

I'm sorry for what I did back then

I was a different person

I really was and I'm so sorry

I wish it wouldn't have happened, but it did, and I'm sorry

Forgive me

I'm sorry

[Daniel Gildenlöw]

I guess I'm simply sorry for being me just so awful to the people

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development

We will be amazed before we are half way through

We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it

We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace

No matter how far down the scale we have gone

We will see how our experience can benefit others

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear

We will lose interest in selfish things

And gain interest in our fellows

Self-seeking will slip away

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change

Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us

We will intuitively know how to handle situations

Which used to baffle us

We will suddenly realize that

God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves

Are these extravagant promises? We think not

They are being fulfilled amongst us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly

They will always materialize if we work for them

You're only as sick as your secrets

But the truth shall set you free

The truth is the truth

So all you can do is live with it