We Only Have Today

This Beat Was Breathing Before I Turned It On - American Folk Rock

“Always Too Late” is a country-ballad confession of missed chances and quiet regret.
The narrator keeps arriving just after love and opportunity have already passed—missing buses and sunsets, leaving letters unsent, letting words of affection go unspoken until it’s too late to matter.  Trains, fading lights and paper lanterns become symbols of time slipping away and of a heart that can’t quite keep pace with life’s moments.  Yet beneath the sorrow there is a kind of acceptance: the singer knows the pattern is partly his own doing, but tells the story with the reflective warmth of someone who has learned to live with imperfection.  The song captures both the ache of lost timing and the bittersweet dignity of acknowledging it.


A Night To Remember (Album Version)

Joe Diffie

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