As I was driving down the highway to Grand Junction the other day, this song came across my car stereo (don’t worry, it wasn’t playing on the radio, it was on my USB stick). It is, hands down, one of my favorite songs, and the only reason that it didn’t make it to my “Monday’s Child and Other Poems” collection was because Robert Foreman also did a song about Wednesday, which fit the theme a bit better.  Here’s the lyrics, as Ye Olde Pick of the Day:

Robert Foreman – Choices

His name was Tony and he just had to be,
A real nice boy from good Catholic family,
He met a girl, and fell in love,
Could he forget his calling from above?

When they were young, he used to say,
When they’d get older, he’d marry her someday.

I love you, I need you, I can’t live without you,
I give you my heart, and my soul!
Remember my promise, I give it, forever,
I’ll never let you go…

Isn’t it funny how people change their minds,
How some move forward while others stay behind,
His needs were changing not in a family way,
She would remind him of what he used to say:

I love you, I need you, I can’t live without you,
I gave you my heart, and my soul!
Remember your promise, you gave it, forever,
I’ll never let you go…

Choices we all have to make on our own,
They keep us together, they keep us alone.
Goodbye…
Goodbye…

He’s father Tony with a parish of his own,
She married someone else, three children and a home,
And when she sees him and her eyes can’t look away,
She knows the choice he made to find his lonely way.

But he remembers, when they first met,
One thing’s for certain, she never will forget…  …Again…

I love you, I need you, I can’t live without you,
I give you my heart, and my soul!
Remember my promise, I give it, forever,
I’ll never let you go…

Goodbye…
Goodbye…
Goodbye…
Goodbye…
Goodbye…
Goodbye…
Goodbye…
Goodbye…