My Unintended - Peter Hammill

I’ve no regrets as to how it went

It’s a relief when the time is spent

My unintended, here’s the letter that I never sent

I gambled it all on a single shot

I found myself in an awkward spot

This psychodrama, was that really the best that we’d got?

It was another time, another place

My unintended caught me staring her full in the face

A close shave and a saving grace

Call it bad karma or misplaced trust

Such a bright future awaited us

My unintended, how we ground all our dreams into dust

I’ve no regrets as to how it went

It’s a relief now the time is spent

My best intentions couldn’t change what the auguries meant

I can’t pretend I knew quite what I’d do

Though something’s planned it doesn’t mean it’s completely thought through

And accidental actions come our way

Till unintended consequences are all we have left in the game

In another’s place I might have played a better hand

All that’s gone to seed but still I didn’t understand

In another time I’d reap such wild oats as I’d sown

Oh, my unintended, where did our bright future go?