Jacqueline

Music and Lyric by David W. Jacobsen
Copyright 2001. All Rights Reserved.

Jacqueline, Jacqueline
You wouldn't say what you were after
Jacqueline, Jacqueline
But I could see beneath your laughter

I sometimes think about the words, I thought but never said
as I watched you fight off demons with a hunger never fed.
And though I know I never could deliver what you'd ask
I wish I'd had the strength to fail with a tenacious mask.

Jacqueline, Jacqueline
Showing coldness and a hard view
Jacqueline, Jacqueline
But the hunger could not hide you.

Looking back I realize the foolish things I'd done
believing in an innocence that long since had been gone.
And though nothing remains of that night and loyalty is dead
I never will forget the words I wish that I had said.

Did you know
What I would have asked?
There was a silence
And then the moment passed.

Jacqueline, Jacqueline
You can't hide your quest for answers
Jacqueline, Jacqueline
But there's a price the seeker incurs

We all regret things in life that we did not do.
My biggest regrets are the words I never said to you.
And if we ever meet again will I recognize
the girl who through my tender years held me hypnotized.