As heard on the 1XX Breakfast Show with Colin Magee.
I hesitate to make a list
of all the countless deals I’ve missed,
Bonanzas that were in my grip.
I watched them through my fingers slip.
The windfalls which I should have bought,
were lost because I over thought.
I thought of this, I thought of that,
I could have sworn I smelt a rat.
And while I thought things over twice,
another grabbed them at the price.
It seems I always hesitate,
then make my mind up much too late.
A very cautious man am I,
and that is why I never buy.
I choose to think and as I thought,
they bought the deals I should have bought.
The golden chances I had then,
are lost and will not come again.
Today I cannot be enticed,
for everything’s so overpriced!
The deals of yesterday are dead,
the market’s soft – and so is my head!
At times a teardrop drowns my eye,
for deals I had, but did not buy.
And now life’s saddest words I pen,
“If only I’d decided then…”