[Intro: Grand piano] [Verse 1: Intimate] I see you in the kitchen, Sunday light on your face, Reading at the table, Coffee going cold in place. Jacket on the staircase, Picture in the hall, A mark beside the doorway Where the kids were growing tall. You say I steal the covers. I say you talk in dreams. Funny how a life together Lives in little things. [Pre-Chorus: Strings enter] And sometimes it's so real I swear I hear Your footsteps in the hallway... Then the room fades out. [Chorus: Orchestra opens] WE COULD'VE HAD A LIFETIME~! IN A THOUSAND ORDINARY DAYS! You could've driven me insane, I could've loved you anyway! We could've fought about the money, We could've kissed and made it right. We could've worn down that table... If we'd only had the time. [Verse 2: Piano and cello] I can see you getting older, Silver in your hair. You still leave your glasses everywhere, I still know just where. There's a garden needing tending. There's a dog asleep upstairs. There's a hundred talks we never had, A hundred things we didn't share. [Pre-Chorus: Building] And sometimes when I'm dreaming I forget what isn't true. For a minute I get home... And I come home to you. [Chorus: Bigger] WE COULD'VE HAD A LIFETIME~! EVERY CROOKED LITTLE DAY! Every door we'd slam in anger, Every promise we'd delay! Not some perfect happy ending, Just a life both worn and true. God, I'd give up almost anything... To have grown old with you. [Bridge: Piano only] But there was never any kitchen. [Pause] There were never pictures in the hall. No jacket on the staircase. No small marks upon the wall. [Cello enters] You never stole the covers. I never heard you talk in dreams. [Strings begin rising] I've been missing twenty years That only lived in me. [Drums enter] How do I remember What we never got to lose? How can I miss a lifetime... I never lived with you? [Silence] [Key Change] [Final Chorus: Full orchestra, stadium-scale] WE SHOULD'VE HAD A LIFETIME~! I'D HAVE TAKEN EVERY DAY! EVERY FIGHT AND EVERY HEARTACHE! EVERY WORD WE'D NEVER SAY! I DIDN'T NEED A PERFECT STORY! I JUST WANTED ONE WITH YOU! AND I'D TRADE EVERY DREAM I'VE HAD... FOR ONE THAT CAME TRUE! [Final lift] GIVE ME THE KITCHEN! GIVE ME THE HALLWAY! GIVE ME THE YEARS WE NEVER KNEW! GIVE ME THE MORNINGS! GIVE ME THE MIDNIGHT! GIVE ME THE LIFETIME! GIVE ME EVERYTHING! [Music cuts] Give me... [Softly] You. [Grand piano] But there was never any kitchen. [Pause] And there was never... Us. [Final piano chord]
