There was a moment... I could almost see it all... The room was quiet, the air was gold You said the things I'd dreamed you'd say And all the years I thought were cold Fell from my shoulders, slipped away I didn't need a promise made Or stars arranged across the sky Just something in the way you stayed A little longer in my eyes My heart was never free of you You're more than just a friend to me Through everything that we've been through You're still someone I need to see I haven't left it all behind There's still so much I feel for you Don't close the door upon our time After all that we've been through You told me that you loved me More than once, I heard you say So I believed the heart you showed me Was a heart that meant to stay We were the shape of almost The warmth before the flame A thousand little tomorrows That never found a name So close I could have touched it So real I let it stay We were the shape of almost And almost felt like everything Almost... almost... You're more than just a friend Almost... almost... Then where does love begin? I saw the mornings in your smile The little things we'd never done A life unfolding for a while Like shadows reaching for the sun I didn't make those words appear Or dream your voice into the room You said you loved me, kept me near Then said I'd asked too much of you I love you, yet I call this friendship Though I say you're so much more I want you in my life somehow Don't ask what I can't answer for Don't take these words to mean I'm ready To build the life you have in mind There are things I have to put right And you must let me take my time But it wasn't only kindness You had spoken love aloud Now you call it misunderstanding When I ask you what we are We were the shape of almost The warmth before the flame A thousand little tomorrows That never found a name So close I could have touched it So real I let it stay We were the shape of almost And almost felt like everything You know you mean much more to me Than someone passing through my life But when I ask what that could mean You leave no place for me beside you I never asked for you to wait I only asked you not to go You cannot ask my heart to stay And tell it not to hope I've changed so much because of you You saw what no one else could see Then why am I still crying here Explaining what your words did to me? Maybe somewhere, another life... I loved you here, I loved you now I cannot live another life On what you might feel somewhere else We were the shape of almost The warmth before the flame A thousand little tomorrows That never found a name And though I couldn't keep it I know what I believed You told me that you loved me But love was more than words to me I love you... Don't close the door. I've heard those words from you before. Then can't we keep what we still feel? I never said it wasn't real. But every time you draw me close You leave me hurting as before I cannot keep on loving you And asking what you're loving me for I wanted you. I wanted us. But I won't live on almost. I love you... But this is over. Goodbye.
