Shopping For One - Love Lost - Deep sadness and regret

A man navigates the quiet ache of everyday life after loss. From a grocery store aisle to an overgrown garden, familiar places are filled with echoes of a love cut short. The song explores the weight of "should haves" and the haunting silence left when "later" never comes. It’s a raw reflection on regret, memory, and the enduring fragments of love.

Lyrics (c) Marc Glasby

In the store I'm alone as I walk down the aisle
I'm shopping for one, as I have for a while
I wish you were here, and I try to pretend
that you're still here with me, and our love didn't end
On the shelf I see cookies, the ones you bought
while we were together, I never gave them a thought

Oh I should've spent more time where you used to go
I should have been smarter and taken life slow
Oh I should have watched sunsets with you, hand in hand
I should have been quicker to follow our plans
But I always said, 'Later...' there'd always be time
for we were in love and you'd always be mine

I should have watched movies that you liked to see
and I should have gone places that you'd like to be
I look at the garden, now nothing but weeds
I think of the times, when you'd plant flower seeds
and you'd be there for hours and you'd make flowers grow
I never thought then, that one day you would go

Oh I should've spent more time where you used to go
I should have been smarter and taken life slow
Oh I should have watched sunsets with you, hand in hand
I should have been quicker to follow our plans
But I always said, 'Later...' there'd always be time
for we were in love and you'd always be mine

There's a little indentation, where you sat to watch T V
Those crazy shows you used to watch, were just too much for me
Girly stuff and rom-coms... you explaining every scene,
me sitting glassy eyed and not getting what they mean
A shared world in the T Vs light, your head against my chest,
Just being there, together, was the thing I found the best.

I drive right by our special spot but I can't bear to stop
we'd sit and watch the ocean as we watched the sunset drop
We'd talk about the future and the time that lay ahead
I had so much I meant to say, those "love yous" left unsaid.

Oh I should've spent more time where you used to go
I should have been smarter and taken life slow
Oh I should have watched sunsets with you, hand in hand
I should have been quicker to follow our plans
But I always said, 'Later...' there'd always be time
for we were in love and you'd always be mine

Some people think you left me, and in a way that's true
but giving up and leaving was not something you'd do
They talk of "moving on" and "time," they whisper "walked away,"
And I don't correct them anymore, I've nothing left to say.
For you didn't choose a different path, you didn't just depart…
You left me with the "should haves" and a crater in my heart.
So now I bring your flowers to the place you lie at rest
My "laters" came too late, my love… I never could have guessed

And I’d trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday,
Plant those flowers in the garden, find the perfect words to say
To let you pick the movie, make you dinner, hold you tight
But "later" never came and my day turned into night
The silence in the house now is the only song I know
and my heart is still in pieces since the day you had to go
yes my heart is still in pieces since the day you had to go
yes my heart is still in pieces

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