For What It's Worth

We sent our postcards saying "wish you were here"
Then made love under the boardwalk pier
I got it wrong and you started to cry
I said I loved you but it was a lie
You were gentle and I was rough
I was talking big and acting tough
Now I've forgotten your name, it was so long ago
When we were two young kids
No place to go, no place to go.

We lost touch, I had the world to see
I didn't think of you, did you think of me?
When you fell in love, was he good and kind
Like I should have been for your first time?
I should've got you a ring from the trinket store
And drawn a heart with an arrow on the boardwalk wall
Maybe got you a flower to weave in your hair
I should have done something that was tender
To show that I cared, to show that I cared.

That's the way life sometimes goes
How things can change nobody knows.

For what it's worth and come what may
I'm feeling bad when I think of that day
Young love should be pure and true
I should have been so good for you
Do you remember the kid who got it all wrong?
Well that kid's now a man and he's writing this song
I'm composing these words, trying to tell you somehow
I didn't love you then, but I love you now
I love you now.

And that's the way life sometimes goes
How thing can change nobody knows
Nobody knows, nobody knows
How things can change, nobody knows.