I stood in the doorway and watched How she drove out of sight She was what you call gone long before There were tears in her eyes And I thought about begging her please It crossed my mind to hit my knees But I never got around to that Something inside me kept holdin' me back, I knew what to say before she drove away But for the life of me why didn't I ask, I never got around to that. Last night I saw her in the arms Of somebody new It almost killed me, cause he did What I couldn't do And it seems like it was yesterday There I stood four words away But I never got around to that Something inside me kept holdin' me back, I knew what to say before she drove away But for the life of me why didn't I ask, I never got around... But I never got around to that Something inside me kept holdin' me back, I knew what to say before she drove away But for the life of me why didn't I ask, I never got around to that.