When you were younger

Blue eyed boy wonder

Never used to ponder

On what life may hide.

Now that you're older

The nights are so much colder

Never even told her

How you feel inside.

You were so proud

With your head up in the white clouds

She'd call you so loud

But you'd never know.

Now that you're wiser

You'd never compromise her

Ever day you'd realise her

But this bird has flown.

And you've blown out all your candles one by one

And you curse yourself for things you've never done.

She would wait for you

Idolise, adore you

Love and reassure you

You couldn't let it be.

You let it linger

Slip on through your fingers

So that september

She moved across the sea.

How your face dropped

And how your heart stopped

Sitting at the bus stop

When they told you that she'd gone.

So you run to the harbour

Need to tell her that you love her

As the boat disappears

You never felt so alone.

'cause you've blown out all your candles one by one

And you curse yourself for things you never done

Where were you when her hour of need had come?

Now you curse yourself for things you never done.

Now your grandson blonde haired blue eyed handsome

Calls you up from london and sits and asks you why

So your answer don't be scared of failure

For the only failure is never to try.