It Doesn?t Matter Now

(Colin Vearncombe)

Memory is such a fickle friend

It can hold onto the pain of yesterday

And this place has no pity

It?s not hard to hate this city

Till you think you?ve found your own place in the sun

You are haunted by the spaces that she leaves

Make you want to look the other way

The answer to the question

That you didn?t want?a ask

The one you?ve been avoiding everyday

And it doesn?t matter now

It didn?t matter then

The only thing we choose

Is how to feel when we?re losing

Once the page is read

It?s better throw away

We?re stopped by the dancing

The love we?re standing on

Stopped by the laughing in the face of giving up

Stopped by the past when the future looked so good

Would you dance on your own grave if you thought you could?

Was she satisfied to simple walk away

To drop you from her life without a trace

Was she seeing another

As you looked into her eyes

Or only the reflection of her face

And it doesn?t matter now

It didn?t matter then

The only thing we choose

Is how to feel when we?re losing

Once the page is read

It?s better throw away

You?ve been carrying that touch for far to long

To grieve beside a hole that isn?t there

For the first time in your life

Be as brave as you are scared

Live it like you lived it once before

Live it like you lived it once before

?Cause it doesn?t matter now

It didn?t matter then

The only thing we choose

Is how to feel when we?re losing

Once the page is read

It?s better throw away