Terence Martin "The Way It Didn't Go"

The late Terence Martin has two especially exquisite songs -- "Waterproof" and "The Way It Didn't Go" but only the former is on YouTube. Enjoy.



where is the life the life we might have led
it started on the corner where we never met
I nearly turned to you you nearly turned to me
at the intersection of what is and what could be
what would have happened we'll never know
that's the way it didn't go

I saw a child who might have had our name
he passed me in a crowd just the other day
he spoke some words but none of them were clear
our shadows nearly touched as he disappeared

did he have your eyes?
I'll never know 
That's the way it didn't go

i'm not myself today & you're not who you are
we're one lane over riding in that car
they read a map but they don't recognize the road
and if they think about us they don't let it show

where did they turn?
We'll never know
That's the way it didn't go

the door you didn't walk through
the girl you didn't talk to
the light you didn't run that day
the call you didn't answer
the unrequited dancer
you met her glance and turned away

put it down lightly
you know how things can break
I can't forget the love we didn't make
the sun that didn't rise
through the window that's not there
the way it didn't fall
on your face and on your hair

what did you dream?
I'll never know
That's the way it didn't go

What might have been?
We'll never know
That's the way it didn't go 

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Below are the "Waterproof" lyrics:

it’s the middle of the country
it’s the middle of the year
it’s a little too much sunlight
for anyone to bear
there’s a thousand miles between us
of unbroken sky
and a thousand crooked questions
along for the ride

we sleep together
we dream all alone
and I wake up beside myself
in the half light of dawn
and I wish at that moment
that i were waterproof
when these thoughts fall like rain
on a corrugated roof
like rain on a roof

it’s the curve of love
it’s the rise and the fall
it’s a frame that we keep
around a hole in the wall
the problem’s in the human
in the flesh & the bone
‘cause if love were the measure
we’d never come undone

a woman is a window
a man’s a revolving door
one foot’s always moving
the other’s nailed to the floor
and the walls keep them together
and they keep them apart
and it’s all just graffiti
in the chambers of the heart

the sheets hold the imprint
of your lover after dawn
and the bed remains unmade
long after she’s gone
and you wish at that moment
that you were waterproof
when these thoughts fall like rain
on a corrugated roof
like rain on a roof