What Could Have Been

[Verse 1] I keep the map of you Folded in my hand All the roads I never took Still know where I stand Your empty chair at dinner Your name in the glass I replay every ending Like I could change the past [Pre-Chorus] If I let it go Would the walls come down? If I let it go Would I hear my own sound? [Chorus] What could have been What could have been I hold the ghost And it holds me in Should have been yours Could have been mine I keep the wound And call it time What could have been What could have been I let it go Then I let you in [Verse 2] The blue dress in the closet Still smells like rain The porch light on your memory Burns through the pain I say I’m moving forward But I circle back To every almost, maybe Every pale last track [Pre-Chorus] If I break the spell Will the dark step back? If I tell the truth Will it cut like that? [Chorus] What could have been What could have been I hold the ghost And it holds me in Should have been yours Could have been mine I keep the wound And call it time What could have been What could have been I let it go Then I let you in [Bridge] I was loyal to a silence To a life that never lived To the love inside the maybe To the mercy I wouldn’t give And if I name it, it can leave me If I grieve it, I survive I am not the broken promise I am still here, I’m alive [Final Chorus] What could have been What could have been I hold the ghost And it holds me in Should have been yours Could have been mine I lay it down I cross the line What could have been What could have been I let it go Then I let you in What could have been What could have been I breathe you out I breathe again