What Mattered Most — текст песни (Ty Herndon)

(Gary Burr/Vince Melamed)

I thought I knew the girl so well
If she was sad I couldn`t tell
I missed the point, I missed the signs
So if she`s gone the fault is mine
I know, I know a whole lot of little things
And even though I confess them one by one
She would still be gone

Her eyes are blue, her hair is long
In `64 she was born in Baton Rouge
Her favorite song is In My Life
I memorized her every move
I knew her books, her car, her cloths
But I paid no attention to what mattered most

I never asked, she never said
And when she cried I turned my head
She dreamed her dreams behind closed doors
That made them easy to ignore
And I know, I know I missed the forest for the trees
And all I have to show oh when she walked out the door
The cold facts and nothing more

Her eyes are blue, her hair is long
In `64 she was born in Baton Rouge
Her favorite song is In My Life
I memorized her every move
I knew her books, her car, her cloths
But I paid no attention to what mattered most

Her eyes are blue, her hair is long
In 64 she was born in Baton Rouge
Her father`s tall, her mother`s gone
She moved out west when she was two
The way she laughed, the way she loved
Oh my God what did I do