Written about a couple of people in my life who watched their marriages disintegrate and couldn't do much about it...

A Broken Hearted Shame

She had a good heart
He had good intentions
Time faded their passion away
After it’s over
Sometimes you realize
You just let your whole world slip away

[Chorus]
A little more gray hair
A little more wisdom
Paid for with time and pain
It’s not that it hurts more
You know what costs are
And it’s just a broken hearted shame
That you didn’t know then
How it’d hurt in the end
Now only the scars remain
It’s still a broken hearted shame
Just a broken hearted shame

You were sure your love
And the seeds you were sowing
Would ripen like grapes on the vine
You wandered and squandered
And turned around to find
That your heart’s what you left behind

[Chorus]
A little more gray hair
A little more wisdom
Paid for with time and pain
It’s not that it hurts more
You know what costs are
And it’s just a broken hearted shame
That you didn’t know then
How it’d hurt in the end
Now only the scars remain
It’s still a broken hearted shame
Just a broken hearted shame