ARTIST: Gunther Anderson and Donna Dubé
TITLE: The Suitcase
Lyrics and Chords


She's standing at the bus stop, suitcase by her side
She's got a sad and faraway look in her eyes
Ten years down the road will she still remember when
Wondering how it feels to wonder how it could have been

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   She came down from Chicago for a weekend in the sun
   A friend she knew could use a little company and fun
   She thought there was a moment, she thought there was a chance
   She thought she saw a partner in this nervous little dance

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But when someone else's ring lies upon her steady hand
And someone else's children run through someone else's land
Will a happy wife and mother stare off into the clouds
And think about the might-have-beens she cannot say aloud

   There's a lost and lonely feeling that miles cannot mend
   When you don't have a beginning you won't never get an end
   The emptiness will tell you at the ending of the day
   It's better to have loved and lost than passed along the way

But now she's standing at the bus stop, suitcase by her side
All she really wants tonight is a place where she can hide
Ten years down the road, if the chance don't come again
Wondering how it feels to wonder how it could have been

   There's someone staring out the window on the 22nd floor 
   Wondering if he said too much or should have said some more
   Somewhere on the interstate she must be gone by now
   And a question never asked don't have an answer anyhow

'Cause something never happened on that weekend by the shore
And though they say they're close, they never quite talk any more
And ten years down the road, they'll think about a long lost friend
And both know how it feels to wonder how it could have been

   There's a lost and lonely feeling that miles cannot mend
   When you don't have a beginning you won't never get an end
   The emptiness will tell you at the ending of the day
   It's better to have loved and lost than passed along the way

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