Now That It's Too Late, Maria

The flicker of the candle looks like a one way conversation

Reacting to something nobody else could see

While I sit at the table and relive the whole situation

Until the valet who wants to go home

Comes in and gives me my keys

And tonight every single star is shining

The power lines all sizzle and buzz

And now that it’s too late, Maria

I see it all for what it was

There’s nothing sadder than a streetlight

Shining on a stretch of empty sidewalk

Or maybe the fog that I’ve been living in

Has lifted for the first time in weeks

Every day’s been a step toward perfecting the art of the small talk

So I never have to say something I might really mean

But I remember all those final words you told me

How I was too green to be blue

But now that it’s too late, Maria

I can see how that was true

Now when I am in your city

I come across the company you’ve been keeping

They all hit it off so well with some infamous ghost of my past

It’s so hard to imagine what you could have possibly told them

Some wonder how I’m doing but most don’t even ask

But now every single door stands open

I even signed some autographs

And now that it’s too late, Maria

We can both look back and laugh

There’s always more to say but I’m just skipping to the ending

When you move back to Texas and

I meet a girl who wants to change her name

And we both start to forget the problems

That were never worth having

And everybody goes on living watching nothing really change

There will always be a part of you that’s with me

And you sure as hell had better feel the same

And now that it’s too late, Maria

There is no one here to blame