if we had known the things we didn't know

if we had known the things we didn't know
you'd be here sipping mocha-frapps today
you'd spend a few more decades 'fore you'd go

there wouldn't have been things that couldn't show
and I would not have painful things to say
if we had known the things we didn't know

maybe if I had been a better bro
had been a greater influence to sway
you'd spend a few more decades 'fore you'd go

was I a bad example, do you know
if I had led my little bro astray?
if we had known the things we didn't know

might you still be, with many years to grow?
I wonder, had I been a different way
you'd spend a few more decades 'fore you'd go

is this the fruit of something I had sown?
the thought will haunt me till my final days
if we had known the things we didn't know
you'd spend a few more decades 'fore you'd go

(C)2009, Christos Rigakos