Текст песни Cohen - Hindsight

Оригинальный текст песни Hindsight

How quick I am to take a breath for granted.
How quickly one’s saving grace can dissipate.

I see now that my choices inhibit
cutting free from the chained weight
stemmed from the burden of loss,
the imparable self-hate.

It took your absence for me to see how selfish of a person I can really be.
And you died by the side of life’s cold shoulder.
A casualty of me growing older.

I’ve made many realizations,
but never could make ends meet.
Chalk it up to unhealthy coping mechanisms,
but I’ve left the reel on repeat.

I’ve learned when you’re alone, a photo album won’t suffice.
Pictures aren’t there for you when you need advice.
No scrapbook can console,
only serve to remind how I let it slip past.
Now I only dwell on the good times.

It’s taken almost eight years to the day
to compile my thoughts without discarding them,
back to line one in my bedroom, distraught.

It’s taken so many drives to and from the graveyard,
my eyes staring from the seat of my parked car.

I’m not naive to the fact
that can’t change the past.
Apologize to my friends,
To my parents,
To your rain-weathered epitaph
For being down,
inducing stress,
forgetting when to laugh

I’ve stood at the foot of the silt
Watched the pink carnations wilt
I can replace them
But can never rectify the guilt
Or make amends with the time I’ve wasted
I’ve just grown jaded

I’ve learned when you’re alone,
A photo album won’t suffice.
Pictures aren’t there for you when you need advice.
No scrapbook can console,
only serve to remind how I let it slip past.
Now I only dwell on the good times.

I’ve realized that I didn’t deserve you,
and I shouldn’t have the chance to reminiscence,
because in hindsight,
when you were alive,
all I ever did was dismiss.

But the biggest realization of all,
is all my problems are my own fault.

I’ll never come to terms with this
Nothing I’ll write will convey
How much I wish I told you
this in the first place

Despite everything I’ve done wrong since I was seventeen,
I hope each day, you’ve been up there watching.
I know if you were here and you could see each flaw,
you’d make sense of them, assuring me that no one saw.

So these words, they’re all I can offer
And they’re my last attempt at reaching you.
I just hope you’re in safe hands,
and I hope I will be one day, too.

I love you.