Verse 1:
Eugene was tired of the smoky barsâ¦and marriage to his ole guitarâ¦he met Diane and thought sheâd change his luckâ¦.but she was high societyâ¦fancy cars and diamond rings. He started feeling love was not enough. So he never told her how he really feltâ¦he just drifted off and kept it to himself. He never looked fell down on his kneesâ¦.said girl wonât you marry meâ¦..cause its with you that I long to grow old. But he never told her.
Verse 2:
Diane was big on the social sceneâ¦.she had the best of store bought dreamsâ¦..but he offered something sheâd never had before. Still she could never quite let goâ¦â¦Eugene was just a rung below on the ladder of what she thought mattered most. She never told himâ¦.how she really felt. She just wrote it in a journal to herself. She never looked him in the eyesâ¦.swallowed every ounce of prideâ¦â¦said all I need is a little band of gold. But she never told him.
Eugene sailed to Nashville and a loners life he livedâ¦â¦.Diane raised a daughter with some millionaire she wedâ¦â¦.they both lived and died regrettingâ¦.all the things they never saidâ¦â¦but he never told herâ¦she never told him. That they never felt that way again. Now some words her daughter read and some pictures neath his bedâ¦.tell the story of a love that shouldâve been. But he never told her and she never told him.