[Verse 1] You were pixels on a screen Little laughs between my scars Midnight secrets Spinning out in shaky hearts I bought your favorite boots But never held your hand Then the messages stopped I still don’t understand [Chorus] I never got to meet you But you live on in my heart In an empty side of the bed In the way I scroll too soon I’m tracing out your sentences On the fogged-up window glass I never got to meet you But you’re here in every past [Verse 2] Thought my chest was carved out Like my ribs forgot their job Then I signed up just to feel Any warmth against the throb Met her in a borrowed blanket Like a Lucid dream Nervous little smile (hey) Talked like time was on our side For a stolen Fragile while [Chorus] I never got to meet you But you live on in my heart In an empty side of the bed In the way I scroll too soon And then she laid her head on me Like the world could be alright I never got to meet you But you softened into that night [Bridge] She drove back to Oregon Said her story wasn’t done Answered one more “sorry I can’t” With “it’s okay I knew you’d run” Funny how the ones who stay Are the ones who had to leave You’re a memory on a monitor She’s a ghost inside my sleeve (oh) [Chorus] I never got to meet you But I talk to you anyway When another almost-lover Turns and slowly walks away You are ink in every chapter Of the heart I try to start I never got to meet you But you’re written in my heart [Outro] Two names on my tongue One gone One out of reach I keep a space between my ribs Where you both can breathe
