A Life Apart - Bao Binh
Sixty years old, no more to search
Her life's moved on, he's left in the lurch
His daughter ill, his wife long gone
He wonders if his choices were wrong
A life apart, memories linger
Regret and sorrow, they point the finger
The choices of you, he sees his fate
Living with the love he couldn't create
He hears she's successful, her son's grown strong
Forty years since that choice went wrong
Given an address but he can't make the call
Fears he'll disgrace her if he takes that fall
A life apart, memories linger
Regret and sorrow, they point the finger
The choices of you, he sees his fate
Living with the love he couldn't create
He wonders if he'd been more bold
Would the story have been told
Now he's left with one remains
A heart full of other unspoken pains
A life apart, yet so close
Haunted by the love he chose to lose
No more liquor, just the weight
Of a life built on that fateful date
And here she's successful, her son's grown strong
Forty years since that choice went wrong
Given an address but he can't make the call
Fears he'll disgrace her if he takes that fall
A life apart, memories linger
Regret and sorrow, they point the finger
The choices of you, he sees his fate
Living with the love he couldn't create
He wonders if he'd been more bold
Would the story have been told
Now he's left with one remains
A heart full of other unspoken pains
A life apart