Some Other Me

Somewhere there's a world where you and I are man and wife

We have a child

Or three

And it's just fine with me

To love that life

And somewhere there's a world

Where from the first we never met

We never spoke or kissed

We don't know what we missed

Or don't know yet

And I didn't go to Vassar, but to Smith, or Yale, or Brown

I ended up in Boston

Or some small Alaska town

To practice law, or neuter cats

Or fish the Bering Sea

Those lives are lived somewhere

By some other me

Some other me is homeless

Some other me is queen

Some other me has seen things that no other me has seen

If I met her I would ask her that one question we both fear:

Some other me

How'd we end up here?

Somewhere there's a me who never loved that other you

Who liked you fine I guess

As buddies, more or less

And that would do

And somewhere there's a you who simply worshipped other me

And we were wild and hot

And all the things we're not

And we were free

And somewhere I'm the president, with plans that never fail

And somewhere I'm a rebel king

And some where I'm in jail

I didn't chase my glory days long after they were done

I found myself a woman, or a man, and had a son

Some other me's a rockstar

Some other me's still cool

Some other me does not feel like som tired old fool

And you and I are strangers

Or we're lovers, or we're not

The other mes

Live with what they've got

Look down each road left untaken

Trace ev'ry turn and twist

The lives that we just let go by

The dreams we might have missed

Now we're old enough to know that

One road ends where one begins

The moment where the "what might bes"

Turn into "might have beens"