If you catch the train to nowhere You'll find the strangest man I've met. Who claimed his ears were always ringing With the sound of his regret, Back then time had not yet taught me Regret was not a sound I knew, So I thought nothing more than silence Was left by things you didn't do. He said he hoped the sound of nothing Was the worst I ever heard, Because regret drives you as crazy As the taste of swallowed words, "It's a stone thrown in a well," he mused And this I've not forgotten: "It's listening all your life And never hearing it hit the bottom."
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