looking back on the memory of the dance we shared 'neath the stars above for a moment all the world was right how could i have known that you'd ever say goodbye and now i'm glad i didn't know the way it all would end the way it all would go our lives are better left to chance i could have missed the pain but i'd have had to miss the dance <♪> holding you, i held everything for a moment wasn't i a king but if i'd only known how the king would fall hey who's to say? you know i might have changed it all and now i'm glad i didn't know the way it all would end the way it all would go our lives are better left to chance i could have missed the pain but i'd have had to miss the dance <♪> and now i'm glad i didn't know the way it all would end the way it all would go our lives are better left to chance i could have missed the pain but i'd have had to miss the dance it's my life it's better left to chance i could have missed the pain but i'd have had to miss the dance