The Right Thing

I misjudged the situation                          

I could not have been more wrong

I left you standing at the station               

Wondering what you could have done

There were strangers staring at you          

As you stood there, and you cried

I explained before I left you                     

But my story was a lie

And I believed I was doing the right thing

Self- deceived into doing the one thing I could never quite undo

I went down to New York City                

Tried to follow all my dreams

It turned out as you’d imagine                  

With me sleeping on the street

I fell in with other strugglers                    

Every story was the same

What stands out is the insistence              

That we never were to blame

And I believed I was doing the right thing

Self- deceived into doing the one thing I could never quite undo

I should have left my plans as sketches

So as to adapt them on the fly

But I began with all the details

Crossing out everything by and by

Now its ink black paper conducive to a lie

You can’t go home again they’ll tell ya   

Nothing good comes from return

And so, I suffer from this distance           

As I wallow in the yearn  

For forgiveness never asked for               

Or contrition left undone

I can’t bring myself to face you                

And the woman you’ve become

‘Cause I believed I was doing the right thing

Yes, I believed I was doing the right thing

Self- deceived into doing the one thing I could never quite undo

©2025 by Rees Shad (SESAC) & Shadville Music

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