Some Other Me

Somewhere there’s a world where you and I are man and wife

We have a child - we’re three

And it’s just fine with me to love that life

And somewhere there’s a world where from the first we never met

We never spoke or kissed

We don’t know what we missed or don’t know yet

And I didn’t go to (?), but to Smith, or Yale, or (?)

I ended up in Boston or some small Alaska town

To practice law, or neuter cats, or fish the barren sea

Those lives who live somewhere by some other me

Some other me is homeless

Some other me is queen

Some other me has seen things that no other me has seen

If I met her, I would ask her that one question we both fear

“Some other me, how’d we end up here?”

Somewhere there’s a me who never loved that other you

Who like to find I guess as buddies more or less

And that would do

And somewhere there’s a you who simply worshiped other me

And we were wild, and hot, and all the things we’re not

And we were free

And somewhere I’m the president with plans that never fail

And somewhere I’m a rebel king

And somewhere I’m in jail

I didn’t chase my glory days long after they were done

I found myself a woman or a man and had a son

Some other me is a rock star

Some other me is still cool

Some other me does not feel like some tired old fool

And you and I are strangers, or we’re lovers, or we’re not

And other me’s live with what they’ve got

Look down each road left untaken

Trace every turn and twist

The lives that we just let go by

The dreams we might have missed

Now we’re old enough to know that

One road ends where one begins

The moment where the “what might bes”

Turn into “might have beens”

Somewhere there’s a world where you and I can still be friends

Not like we were not yet

We forgive but don’t forget

No happy ends

But friends