The Seat Beside You

I used to see you waiting with that smile I rarely earned You saved a place beside you, hoping one day I'd return But I was chasing something distant, something I could never hold And left your quiet patience turning quietly to cold I thought you'd always be there So I never stopped to see Now the seat beside you Feels heavier than silence A place I should have filled with laughter A life I should have shared with you Now the seat beside you Reminds me what I wasted The moments that I could have chosen And the love I never grew You waited through the evenings while I counted other things Believing we'd have time again to stitch up every seam But time is not a promise and love is not a clock And now I'm standing at the doorway where the echoes never stop I traded all our minutes For a life that never stayed Now the seat beside you Feels heavier than silence A place I should have filled with laughter A life I should have shared with you Now the seat beside you Reminds me what I wasted The moments that I could have chosen And the love I never grew If I could sit beside you Just once to make it right I'd tell you that I see now What was right there in my sight Now the seat beside you Still waits in every memory A quiet, broken invitation To the life I didn’t choose Now the seat beside you Is where my heart keeps sinking Because I thought we'd have forever But forever’s what I lose