We Do Live To Regret

In most of us there are memories in our past we would rather forget The things in our lives we do live to regret Perhaps an ill chosen word that did cost us a friend And brought a good friendship to a premature end How come our worst memories in us are the slowest to fade? We pay in regret for mistakes we have made We cannot change now what happened long ago And that the past is just a memory happens to be so To the stubborn young mind it would mean loss of face To apologize for a wrongdoing that would take too much grace But regrets do not seem to have a use by date And when most think about saying sorry it is always too late Most people fail to realize than on saying sorry themselves they also forgive So a lifetime of regret they are left with to live Some of our mistakes of the past in regrets in us live on And it is all too late to change what has been and long gone.