If I Had Only Said Hello

If I  Had Only Said Hello

I’ve been playing with my beer bottle

Shredding the label with my fingernails

So scared that you would glance over at me

And notice that I have been looking at you

Such an angel sitting alone at the bar

I know that you are so far above me

Out of my class

Still, I look at you

Wondering what your name is

And why you are all alone

There is something about you

Something I cannot understand

Too bad it is so late at night

The bartender called last call

And I still have not worked up the nerve

To say hello to someone as beautiful as you

My friends Jack, Jim, and Captian Morgan

They all left me with a lack of courage

I watch you leave as the clock strike two

Somehow I know I will never see you again

But that is alright

I have my memories

Of that beautiful girl sitting on a barstool

And the dreams of what might have been

If I had only said hello