Hello Mirror, so glad to see you my friend It's been a while...
Staring at the empty page before me All the years of wreckage running through my head Patterns of my life I thought adorned me Revealing hurtful shame and deep lament
Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me As the pen begins to trace my darkest past Signs throughout my life that should have warned me Of all the wrongs I've done for which I must repent
I once thought it better to regret Things that I have done when haven't Sometimes you've got to be wrong Learn the hard way Sometimes you've got to be strong When you think it's too late
Staring at the finished page before me All the damage now so clear and evident Thinking about the dreaded task in store for me A pit of fear at the thought of my amends
Hoping that this step will help restore me To face my past and ask for forgiveness Cleaning up my dirty side of this unswept street Could this be the beginning of the end?
I once thought it better to regret Things that I have done when haven't Sometimes you've got to be wrong Learn the hard way Just when you're through hanging on You're saved
'''IX. Restitution'''
Corey Taylor - "Until that moment, I'd never felt like I'd failed at anything...And I felt like I failed her...And I failed myself, and I failed my children...It's still really hard to deal with."
Steve Vai - "I want to thank you for helping me to see my own selfishness and to tell you how regretful I am it has hurt you."
Chris Jericho - "I'm sorry I didn't visit you in the hospital, Grandpa when you were on your deathbed. I'm sorry I didn't come to your funeral...I don't know if I was selfish or just too scared to face it. It's one of the biggest regrets of my life."
David Ellefson - "I'm here to confess with you that what I did, was wrong... And I'm asking for your forgiveness"
Steve Hogarth - "The only unforgivable thing hauls itself out of bed, looks over my shoulder at the bloody English weather..."
Joe Satriani - "I really regret not being able to see my friend Andy..."
Mikael Åkerfeldt - "One of my best friends who's the godfather of my daughter, he asked me to sing or play something at his wedding, and I turned it down because I was busy and too much of a chickenshit to do it...And I feel sorry for that, because it was a very very close friend of mine"
Steven Wilson - "So, I wanted to apologize to anyone that I've upset or offended.. they're just words, it's just an opinion, but unfortunately, I tend to express it as a fact, and that's kind of arrogant."
Jon Anderson - "I think it's the betrayal...it still haunts me."
Neal Morse - "I'm sorry for what I did back then... I was a different person. I really was and I'm so sorry. I wish it wouldn't have happened, but it did, and I'm sorry. Forgive me. I'm sorry..."
Daniel Gildenlöw - "I guess I'm simply sorry for being me just so awful to the people..."
"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development We will be amazed before we are half way through We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace No matter how far down the scale we have gone We will see how our experience can benefit others That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear We will lose interest in selfish things And gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We