I am here to tell you we can never meet again   Simple really, isn't it, a word or two and then   A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when   You think of me or speak of me or wonder what befell   The someone you once loved so long ago so well      Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by   You don't have to ask me and I need not reply   Every moment of my life from now until I die   I will think or dream of you and fail to understand   How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand      Is it written in the stars   Are we paying for some crime   Is that all that we are good for   Just a stretch of mortal time      Is this God's experiment   In which we have no say   In which we're given paradise   But only for a day      Nothing can be altered, oh, there is nothing to decide   No escape, no change of heart, no any place to hide   You are all I'll ever want but this I am denied   Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned   What it is to be in love and have that love returned      Is it written in the stars   Are we paying for some crime   Is that all that we are good for   Just a stretch of mortal time      Is this God's experiment   In which we have no say   In which we're given paradise   But only for a day      Is it written in the stars   Are we paying for some crime   Is that all that we are good for   Just a stretch of mortal time      Is this God's experiment   In which we have no say   In which we have no say   In which we're given paradise   Given paradise   But only for a day