Lyrics

It?s Not How I Thought It Would Be

Verse#1
I picked up a dozen red roses
Practiced what I was gonna say
I took her to her favorite restaurant
Bought a bottle of fine champagne
After we finished our meal I took her hand
And got down on one knee
My voice started to shake and I couldn?t stop
The tears that rolled down my cheek

Chorus:
It?s not how I thought it would be
The words kept loosing their way
I thought it through in my mind
A hundred times
I knew what I wanted to say
But I could barely speak
It?s not how I thought it would be

Verse#2
She was picking up her suitcase
As the taxi pulled up outside
After 10 years together I only had
Two minutes to change her mind
I remember when we walked down the aisle
And there she was running from my heart
If I let her go then I?d regret it forever
That?s why I ran after that car

Chorus:
It?s not how I thought it would be
The words kept loosing their way
I played it through in my mind
A hundred times
I knew what I wanted to say
But I could barely speak
It?s not how I thought it would be

Bridge
Well I used to sit with photographs
Remembering how we were
On the night she called said can we try again
I knew I was over her?and I said no

Chorus:
It?s not how I thought it would be
The words kept loosing their way
I ran it through in my mind
A hundred times
I knew what I wanted to say
But I could barely speak
It?s not how I thought it would be

Now I can barely speak
It?s not how I thought it would be

©2004 Shelley Jacobson & Lorna Flowers