[Intro] Maybe it never mattered anyway. Or perhaps that was the only thing that did. [Verse 1] I remember missing sunsets 'cause I had somewhere to be. Saying no to Tuesday dinner for a thing I can't remember from that week. Kept the grades. Lost the notebooks. Got the title. Changed the name. Funny what felt so important then that I couldn't tell you today. [Pre-Chorus] I thought the serious things were the things that made a life. But the memories that stayed with me were never scheduled right. [Chorus] Maybe it never mattered anyway. Maybe that was the only thing that did. All the hours I thought I wasted might've been the hours that I lived. Laughing somewhere past midnight. Missing turns to keep you talking. Maybe life was never hiding in the things I got done. Maybe what I called a waste of time was time I actually touched. [Verse 2] I remember your head on my shoulder. Bare feet on somebody's lawn. Driving nowhere with the windows down because we liked that stupid song. Coffee going cold between us. Talking till the place shut down. None of it advanced my future. God, I wish I had more now. [Pre-Chorus] No certificate for knowing how your best friend's laughter sounds. No promotion for the night we watched the porch light flicker out. [Chorus] Maybe it never mattered anyway. Maybe that was the only thing that did. All the hours I thought I wasted might've been the hours that I lived. Laughing somewhere past midnight. Missing turns to keep you talking. Maybe life was never hiding in the things I got done. Maybe what I called a waste of time was time I actually touched. [Bridge] At the end, will I remember how efficiently I lived? How quickly I returned the emails? How much more I could've fit? Will I wish I'd answered faster? Kept a cleaner calendar? Or would I trade every empty checkbox for one more ordinary night with someone who isn't here? There's the answer. Maybe meaning never shouted. Maybe that's why I missed it. Maybe meaning was beside me while I kept looking for significance. [Final Chorus] Maybe it never mattered anyway. Maybe that was the only thing that did. Every hour I thought I wasted. Every stupid thing we did. Every dinner running over. Every road we didn't plan. Every time I forgot my future long enough to know exactly where I am. Maybe life was never waiting at the end of something big. Maybe all the little moments were the only thing that did. [Post-Chorus] Not the title. Not the score. Not how quickly I became more. Just the people. Just the places. Just the seconds I was in. Maybe it never mattered. Maybe that was the only thing that did. [Outro] I used to hate wasting time. Now I'm scared I didn't waste enough of it.
