[Intro – lone piano, close-mic vocal] It's a weird kinda loss, you know? Ain't got nothin' to remember. Got a whole lot I can't forget. [Verse 1] I know the name of the street where I live, but you ain't never seen it. Know you'd love that shade of fuckin' green, wish you were here to see it. We had opinions 'bout a house, 'bout what forever's s'posed to mean. Had opinions 'bout the life we'd build, what we'd fuck up, what we'd keep. Had plans to make a home, had plans to make that shit last. But never got to live inside the future we kept talkin' 'bout in the past. Now there's silence everywhere, even where it don't belong. Just some fucked-up kinda grief for a life that never got to go wrong. No future, no last goodbye, no couple shit, no stupid fights. No you bitchin' 'bout the mess, no me pretendin' I was right. No late-night runs for shit we need, no "babe, you won't believe this shit." Just all these plans we talked into life with no damn life to put 'em in. [Pre-Chorus] How you mourn a thing that never happened? How you miss what you ain't had? How's a future got me homesick for a place I never had? [Chorus] I could travel the world a thousand times, travel mile for mile under a thousand skies. Learn a hundred roads, let the old ones fade, still know all the turns to a life we never made. I could leave my name in a dozen towns, let the years run up, let the past die down. But there's no damn distance that can make it true— I can find a thousand places, never find the one with you. [Verse 2] There's a version of me you would've known that I ain't even met myself. The one who'd learned to ask for help instead of lockin' shit away on shelves. Maybe I'd have talked more shit, said what hurt instead of actin' cold. Maybe you'd have seen the parts of me I never let nobody hold. And I don't get to know if love could've changed the way I move. If I'd learned to stay when things got hard, if you'd learned what I go through. We ran outta road before we found out what the road was for. Now I'm meetin' who I might've been with no you to know him anymore. [Pre-Chorus 2] And that's a hell of a thing to lose, a man I never got to be. I don't just miss the life with you— I miss who you might've brought from me. [Chorus] I could travel the world a thousand times, travel mile for mile under a thousand skies. Learn a hundred roads, let the old ones fade, still know all the turns to a life we never made. I could leave my name in a dozen towns, let the years run up, let the past die down. But there's no damn distance that can make it true— I can find a thousand places, never find the one with you. [Verse 3] And there's a side of you I'll never see, not 'cause you hid it, not from me. We just ran outta road before we found out what the road was for. I'll never know what years would've done, what time would've softened, what time would've scarred. If we'd turn into that old damn couple who argue 'bout the same shit in the yard. Would we still have made each other laugh when the world had kicked our teeth in? Would we know each other's worst damn habits and still let the other person in? I don't get to say we would've made it. Hell, I don't know if we were built to last. But I'll never know what we could've been— and that question's built to last. [Bridge – piano alone, voice almost breaking] Maybe that's why I can't move on like there's some finish line to cross. There's no grave, no final chapter, just a future that got lost. Nothing ended that we can point to, no last page to close the book. Just a life that never happened still givin' me that homesick look. [Final Chorus – piano expands, strings and low choir enter] I could travel the world a thousand times, travel mile for mile under a thousand skies. I could learn the names of every street, still have nowhere I would wanna be. I could build a life on the other side, make new plans, let the years roll by. But I finally get what I couldn't see— Home was never just a place to be. It was never just these walls around me. It was every road I wanted to take with you beside me. And if home is where the heart lies, then mine never made it back. I left to find a world out there— but my heart stayed where you are. [Outro – piano returns to a single repeating figure] I know the name of the street where I live. You ain't never seen it. A thousand skies above my head… and not one of 'em feels like home.
