I saw you there in the blur of a passing crowd Just a second, just a flicker, but it shook me loud You looked like someone I once knew by heart A ghost in daylight pulling me apart And isn't it cruel how one glance can undo All the miles I've walked without you? I told myself I'd outgrown the ache But some memories don't know how to fade And I still wonder what we could've been If you had tried the way I did, back then If loving me wasn't something you wore thin If forever wasn't just another word you'd spin Because I loved you in ways I'll never love again But you never learned how to hold me the same You were always almost there Close enough to promise, far enough to disappear I kept giving pieces I couldn't replace You kept losing me somewhere behind your chase I was ready to spend a lifetime by your side But I lived alone even when you were mine And now I see your eyes, distant and fine And wonder if you ever think of mine And I still wonder what we could've been If you had stayed when the walls caved in If you had loved me with more than a half-hearted try If you had fought for us instead of letting it die Because I loved you in ways I'll never love again But you never learned what it meant to be my man Maybe in another life you choose to stay Maybe in another life you learn the hard way That love like mine doesn't come twice And losing it, God, you paid the price I watched you fade into the crowd once more Just another chapter I can't rewrite anymore You'll never know the life I pictured with your name The home, the warmth, the years I would've claimed And I still ache for what we could've been A story I carried long after it dimmed You were supposed to be my lifelong friend But you loved me least when I loved you best And though I'd burn the world just to feel you again I know now, you were never meant to stay in the end So I breathe you out in shattered sighs A ghost I lost, a future that died And maybe someday this hurt will mend But you'll always be the almost that never ends