Plain Sailing - Tracey Thorn

Meetings arranged, they say, never work out

I say we’ve proved them wrong without a doubt

I can’t remember now just what we said

I never could have guessed what lay ahead

As I ran towards you up the stairs

Did a voice in my ear cry, «Beware»?

Even now I’m surprised you recall

Such a short time it took me to fall

Pretending that my heart still lay elsewhere

When in truth I had long ceased to care

For what I thought I’d never replace

'Til in my heart you left him no space

You say, you wonder what was it I saw?

I say «Oh, I don’t recall anymore»

My first impressions have been left behind

Replaced now by feelings and more lost in kind

Sure that you know but you never can tell

When I think I understand you so well

Shakes me that you were a constant surprise

Or so you appear in my eyes

Tempting to think now it will all be plain sailing

Old enough now to know there’s no such thing