Better Not To Know
--words and music by Michael Stanley

Playing pirates for some fifteen years
We sailed those roads around
Plundered till our time was out
Then ran that bitch aground...
And we'd play our songs for anyone who'd listen
Went chasing after anything that glistened
Always thinking it was all
About to change with one more show
Maybe it's better not to know...

And the first time that I saw her
I was in with no reprieve
Sure that love would conquer all
Ready to believe..
We knew all about those matters of the heart
Then reeling when the whole thing fell apart
Watching as naivete
Got told just where to go
Maybe it's better not to know...

And if we had tomorrow's paper
Had the answers in our hands
Would we be buying
Yeah and if we knew it all
Would we even heed the call
Or just stop trying...

Now I'm lost under the moonlight
And the beauty of your gaze
Praying that the lessons learned
Will serve these final days
Where the future's so much closer than the past
And maybe we have saved the best for last
'Cause a secret's just the truth
Someone doesn't want to show
Maybe it's better not to know...