Morrissey - The Never Played Symphonies lyrics

Reflecting from my deathbed

I'm balancing life's riches against the ditches

and the flat gray years in between

All I can see are the never-laid

That's the never-played symphonies

I can't see those who tried to love me

All those who felt they understood me

and I can't see those who very patiently put up with me

All I can see are the never-laid

Or the never-played symphonies

You were one, you meant to be one

and you jumped into my face and laughed

and kissed me on the cheek and then were gone forever

...not quite

Black sky in the daytime

and I don't much mind dying

When there is nothing left to care for anymore

Just the never-laid, the never-played symphonies

You were one, you knew you were one

and you slipped right thru my fingers

No not literally but metaphorically

and now you're all I see as the light fades