Right here you see one of the good guys One of the nice ones, with sensible drives What else could I be? I'm one of the good guys Who play with their children and dote on and pamper their wives But there was a night in hawaii on a business trip That my mind has sufused with a mystic glow She was someone's friend and she had this smile We were on a beach and we walked a while And I watched the wind billow in her hair And I knew we knew there was more to share I could feel the ground start to go Like volcanoes starting to blow And the waves were loud We were all alone We had left the crowd Not a soul would ever have known But I stopped and said no 'Cause that isn't me, I'm one of the good guys One of the smart ones, who's virtue survives Firm as a tree, one of the good guys Who trades a flash of heat to build a warmer fire Denies himself a treat to shoot for something higher And that's the part that's sweet That only the good guys know That's not the end, as you suspected Time flipped some pages, I'm now forty-four There's money to spend, the kids are in college My wife's back in art school, we just bought a house at the shore But sometimes at night, in the stillness, I am wide awake As the wife I still desire sleeps by my side I can the wash of the perfume there As my mind is drowning in billowing hair And although I know that my life is blessed I am teased by thoughts that it's second best And the visions seen in my head Of the lives that I could have lead They are all still there I can change my fate There's no time to spare I must find them before it's too late But I wait and say no Hell, why defend all of us good guys? Strangling in plenty yet whining for more Truth is, my friend, just between good guys It's not which road you take, which life you choose to live in It's not the choice you make, the longing is a given And that's what brings the ache That only the good guys know