[Verse 1] Ran into an old friend downtown tonight He asked about you, said he heard you're doing alright Then he smiled and said, "Some things just aren't meant to be" Like he knew everything there was to see I nodded and let the conversation go But there's a whole lot more than anybody knows They remember the ending, that's all they ever saw They never saw the cracks before the fall [Pre-Chorus] It didn't happen all at once It wasn't one goodbye [Chorus] Everybody knows how it ended Everybody's got their own version of why But the truth lives somewhere in the middle Between the tears and all the pride They know the last page of the story They know the night you walked away from me But nobody knows the rest of the story Nobody but me [Verse 2] They never saw the nights we'd stay awake till dawn Trying to save something that was already gone The conversations going nowhere fast Two hearts holding onto a fading past We got so good at saying "everything's okay" Neither one of us believed a word we'd say To the outside world we looked just fine But trouble was growing one day at a time [Pre-Chorus] No villains and no innocent hearts Just two people losing sight [Chorus] Everybody knows how it ended Everybody's got their own version of why But the truth lives somewhere in the middle Between the tears and all the pride They know the last page of the story They know the night you walked away from me But nobody knows the rest of the story Nobody but me [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] Looking back, it wasn't fate that pulled us down It wasn't one mistake that turned things around We kept waiting on each other to make things right While the distance kept growing every night And by the time we finally saw what we had done The damage was already done Now all these years later, people still talk Like they know the whole truth from one short walk [Final Chorus] Everybody knows how it ended Everybody's got their own version of why But the truth lives somewhere in the middle Between the tears and all the pride They know the last page of the story They know the night you walked away from me But nobody knows the rest of the story Nobody but me Yeah, they know how the story ended But they never lived the chapters in between Nobody knows the rest of the story Nobody but me [End]
