Pulled up to your old apartment Same crack in the doorframe Paint still chipped My hands on the wheel keep shaking Like they’re holding every word I never said I still find your note in my jacket Coffee stain Corner torn Ink bled thin Reads “I’ll always try to be better” Guess we learned how hard “always” really is This is what we could have been If we hadn’t burned it down so young If we’d learned to say “I’m scared” Instead of loading every word like a gun I see versions of us in the dark Every maybe Every almost Every sin You’re a life I never lived You’re what we could have been (could have been) Your friends still ask how I’m doing I laugh it off Say “Yeah I’m fine” But my throat turns tight on your birthday Like the calendar is strangling my mind I still dodge that song on the radio The one you swore you’d dance to at our wedding Now it’s just a four‑minute ambush A soundtrack to everything I’m regretting Did we fight for pride or for nothing? Did we push love out just to let in pain? We were standing in the doorway of something Slamming it shut Then asking why it rained This is what we could have been If we hadn’t turned our backs and run If we’d stayed when it got ugly Instead of aiming low blows at the sun I see versions of us in the dark Every maybe Every almost Every sin You’re a life I never lived You’re what we could have been (what we could have been) You were my future tense My “someday soon” Now you’re just dust in an empty room I talk to the air like it’s listening But it never answers It just stings You were my stupid faith My reckless vow I’d have torn my whole damn world down Just to build you something steady You said you weren’t ready Weren’t ready We were right there (we were right there) At the edge of everything (edge of everything) We let fear win (let fear win) Now we carry what it did to me Did to you If I called tonight Would you hang up or stay? If you showed at my door Would I slam it or say your name? Or would we both just stare At the ruins we made This is what we could have been But we carved our names into the past We were so afraid to bend We chose breaking Thinking it would last I see versions of us in the dark Every maybe Every almost Every sin You’re the ghost under my skin You’re what we could have been If there’s a world where we made it Hold her like I thought you would If there’s a life where you stayed I hope I finally did you good We were almost We were almost We were almost What we could have been
