What Could Have Been
Words and Music by Castell Brydges.
They stood at the altar fide by side
In the sunshine of youth sublime,
No thought of clouds or storm and strife
In the sweet, golden summer time;
But, alas! if the future they could have seen.
Their joy would have fled like a dream;
Dark days hov'ring o'er them
And the story what might have been.
Chorus.
Sunshine, sorrow and tears come to every one,
Be they peasant, be they king, they cannot dark days shun;
Only men and women are we, feeling sorrow keen;
We oft look back with sad regret And think what might have been.
One day in their lives a quarrel came,
A simple and foolish thing;
It blasted their love forevermore
Like the viper's poisonous sting;
And now in the night, when the moon shines bright,
A woman so fair is seen,
Murm'ring in her agony,
How happy we might have been.- Chorus.
What Might Have Been
Contemplation is one of the worst things a depressed person can do. They will think about what could have been. Most often this fantasy life is better than the one they are living. They contemplate the choices that could have been, the way their life could have change, and how much happier they would have been. It is a known fact that thinking about what could have been causes depression.