[00:00.03]The Right Regrets (SMASH Cast Version) - Smash Cast&Debra Messing&Christian Borle
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[00:13.93]A writer has the empty page
[00:16.96]Where he can set the scene
[00:20.47]He puts the actors on the stage
[00:23.54]Or on the movie screen
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[00:26.81]The characters all say the words
[00:29.63]The writer wants to hear
[00:33.32]And then, my friend
[00:37.05]A happy end
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[00:41.16]But when the writer steps outside
[00:44.30]That room where he is king
[00:47.53]He can't control when lives collide
[00:50.52]Or what the lovers sing
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[00:54.11]And so he hides behind his words
[00:57.10]The one place he belongs
[01:00.80]And in black and white
[01:04.51]He can rewrite the wrongs
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[01:15.67]Where he can find the strength to say
[01:18.73]What those he loves should hear
[01:22.33]And just erase mistakes she's made
[01:25.37]Then make them disappear
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[01:30.09]Where he can change the plot
[01:32.34]So he's a hero, not a louse
[01:36.45]And when the curtain falls
[01:38.93]There's not a dry eye in the house
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[01:45.25]A writer hopes to leave behind
[01:48.12]A work no one forgets
[01:51.25]And when he writes, "the end"
[01:53.08]To find he has the right regrets
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[01:57.79]A writer has the empty page
[02:00.69]Where he can use his pen
[02:04.72]To mend his heart
[02:08.77]And try to start
[02:14.43]Again
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