I saw you smiling from the corner of your mouth, in the corner of my eye,
You didn't know that it was there,
But I hope that you appreciate the fact you were appreciating one who did not see,
And so you did not care, but you were...

Caught in an unguarded moment,
You didn't know it would show,
But you were caught in an unguarded moment,
Your incognito went right out of the window.

I saw a young man standing on a crowded bar room floor,
He was getting less and less, thinking he was getting more,
And when all at once he heard a sound exploding from the stage,
He'd been taken unawares, and with no time to prepare, for he'd been...

Caught in an unguarded moment,
He wasn't ready to go,
But he was caught in an unguarded moment,
He had no time to say no.

I saw a young girl fly over a rocky mountain brink,
She had had too much to drink, she did not have time to think,
But it was far more than just her car that flew out of control,
She had gone over the edge long before she'd lost her soul; she was...

Caught in an unguarded moment,
Her fate was inappropos,
But she was caught in an unguarded moment,
She's been a pleasure to know,
But she was caught in an unguarded moment,
She made a brief cameo,
But she was caught in an unguarded moment,
Something she could not foreknow,
And now she's caught in an unguarded moment,
All fall down like dominoes,
And now she's caught in an unguarded moment,
Eternal sorrow and woe.