Don't own WC, or the lyrics at the beginning of the song. Those honors go to Jeff Eastin and Switchfoot respectively.
Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you've got now
Yeah, and today is all you'll ever have
Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
And you had everything to lose
If you had asked Neal Caffrey where he thought he'd be in the future ten years ago, he might have answered with any number of things. Prison, maybe. Somewhere in Europe, possibly. Definitely with Kate. And if not in jail, still doing what he loved, still running cons.
Peter Burke was just another Fed searching for him back then. Of course, he also happened to be the only Fed who had even a sliver of a chance to catch him, but he was still a Fed. Feds are not friends. They are not people that anyone in Neal's line of work trust. Well, to be honest, Caffrey's world got flipped upside down the day Kate dumped him.
Originally, being released into Peter's custody to work for the FBI was just another mean to an end. This way he had just a little more room to move around, so he could find Kate, because he just couldn't accept the bottle seriously meant goodbye. But then something changed.
He stuck around for a while. His old associates(Alex, Moz) saw him changing, noticed even before he did. At first he told himself he was building Peter's trust so it would be easier to get away. And then it all fell away, and he realized that he really did like working with Peter, and worst of all, he trusted the agent. They were partners, friends even. Things weren't supposed to be this way.
He told himself that it didn't hurt that he would be leaving Peter, turning his back on everything that had been given to him. Yet when Peter showed up before the plane took off and asked why Neal hadn't said goodbye, the con man was forced to admit it to himself: Peter was the only one who would be able to talk him into staying.
Yes, if you asked Neal ten years ago where he thought he'd be in this life, he definitely wouldn't have said working for the FBI. But given the chance he knows that he'd never change a thing.
His life is turning out better than he ever could have imagined.
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