Still Here, Somewhere

Verse

We were fire without a match,

Too young to know what we held,

Said forever like a dare,

Then we scared ourselves and fell.

Doors slammed, words cut deep,

Love learned how to bruise,

We were trying to be grown

With nothing left to lose.

Pre-chorus

You wanted steady ground,

I was learning how to stand,

We kept pulling different ways

Till we broke what we had.

Chorus

I didn’t lose you to the grave,

Didn’t get that kind of peace,

I lost you to another man

And the life you couldn’t reach with me.

Ten years gone, different names,

Different kids calling us home,

But some nights I still hear your voice

Like you never really left me alone.

Verse

I see you smiling in a frame,

Somebody else’s last name,

I wonder if he knows the girl

Who used to dance in the rain.

We were broken, yeah it’s true,

Said things we can’t erase,

But love don’t disappear

Just ’cause it changed its place.

Pre-chorus

I learned how to let you go,

But not how to forget,

Some loves don’t come back around

They just quietly sit.

Chorus

I didn’t lose you to the grave,

Didn’t get that kind of peace,

I lost you to another man

And the life you couldn’t reach with me.

Ten years gone, different names,

Different dreams, different roads,

But there’s a part of who I am

That only you will ever know.

Bridge

Sometimes I thank God it wasn’t death,

That you’re breathing, you’re okay,

But sometimes that hurts worse

‘Cause I know you chose to stay…

With him.

Chorus

I didn’t lose you to the grave,

Just the timing, just the fight,

We were almost something real

But almost never survives.

Now we wave from separate lives,

Like strangers who’ve been close,

You were my first kind of love…

The one you never outgrow.

Outro

So here’s to what we couldn’t be,

And what we couldn’t save,

I didn’t lose you to the ground—

I lost you…

And you walked away.