You don't understand
Why your dreams fell through again
And just when you felt that you had found for yourself
The perfect love for your plan

But now you're getting back those doubts
And wonder if it will work out
Cause now you have your regrets and things you just can't accept
About him

You leave behind the ones who give their love
As you grow older
And live your life just holding up dreams of
A perfect love

Well now he wonders what to do
Because he changed himself for you
And then you left him because I guess he couldn't become
The man you wanted him to

And so he tries to love again
He doesn't know though if he can
Because the picture of you keeps on shooting back through
Inside him

You leave behind the ones who give their love
As you grow older
And live your life just holding up dreams of
A perfect love

Well now its been a year or two
Since you have had a man with you
And now you wonder how much you're really loosing your touch
With all the people you knew

You say it's just a passing phase
That no one's come along your way
And some where just up ahead there's a guy that was made
Just for you

You leave behind the ones who give their love
As you grow older
And live your life just holding up dreams of
A perfect love

You sit and think some about the past
And wonder how it went so fast
Your dream just never came true and now you're watching your youth
Start slipping out of your grasp

But now you see through older eyes
No use to sit and wonder why
You stay there resting your head on the side of your bed
And you cry

You left behind the ones who gave their love
As you grew older
And lived your life just holding up dreams of
A perfect love
 

NOTES:

This is another "I'll create my own imaginary future to get back at you" song.  I really am not a "spiteful" person, this was just my way of not facing the reality that life isn't always the way you want it to be.

This song was recorded at Applewood Studio.  I am singing the vocals and Terry Miller is playing guitar.   The magnetic master tape had deteriorated a bit before I could get it digitally recorded.