my friend you know
soldiers discriminate
on where they’ll feel regret
but I regret I’ve always gone too far
and never far enough
so I look at your picture from time to time
when I’m not one for sentiment
and wish that I had just been still
to know you
when you were mine to know
and that I could have been this me
that I am now
but then I never would have known
how far it was
that someone else could go
for me
if I had been this me
and sometimes when we don’t go
quite far enough
that’s the furthest we can go
and the greatest thing that we can give
and I wouldn’t have known
that I could go that far
if I didn’t do that for you
when I didn’t go far enough