Passed through main street yesterday   And, oh, this town just ain't the same   Looked in the window and it was gone   All those tables I'd written on      We're vanished as if I had never been there   Like the poets and prophets who can't find the words so they stare   And all that made sense has somehow turned askew   I missed my chance with you      There were seconds then minutes then years that I could not breathe   In the Pere Lachaise with the hammer the chisel and the stone   Now I've bartered and begged for what I believed   And I saw that the name engraved was my own      Now there's nothing so peaceful as when I met you   And there's nothing so lonely as when it was through   And the words, "I'm not here anymore", echo into   "I missed my chance with you"      Had love play so many tricks on me   I've always felt cheated that you'd make me leave   Like taking my sight after letting me see   But I found out love had something up it's sleeve      Leave me scattered like leaves by winds that never blew   When I captured the starts   In the palm of my hand it was true   I'd just give them back to you      I was seventeen, but just for one year   I always knew one day, I'd end up here   And the sands have now fallen to the evening of my afternoon   I'm was always so ready to stay and always leaving too soon      And I don't want to think about it now, but I do   And my spirit is restless   'Cause I know it's true   I missed my chance with you