Wasn’t It Obvious

A lifetime would end

Around the time I said

Goodbye to my friends

And we swore we'd talk again

But silence crept in slow

Like dust in the window glow

I didn’t know that back then

Oh my god

But wasn’t it obvious?

When I packed all my bags

I swore I’d come right back

Didn’t see it would be

Four long years till I’d see my dad

I didn’t know that back then

Oh my god

But wasn’t it obvious?

Time runs faster than your plans

Slips right through your open hands

And the past—it fades, it bends

Till it’s just a story’s end

I’m just trying not to feel stuck

I miss the things I couldn’t keep

I just want to fall asleep

In the bedroom where I grew up

With the posters on the wall

And the hum of late-night calls

Oh, time runs faster than you can

You’ll look back on what you had

I clung on to my pride

Built another kind of life

Then one night she would die

Before I said goodbye

And I didn’t know that back then

Oh my god

But wasn’t it obvious?

Sometimes when I close my eyes

I go ten years back in time

We’re still sitting in your car

Laughing under trembling stars

And I never found a better friend

No, not ever again

These days, they say I sound like you

When I laugh the way you used to do

And I wonder, if I came home

Just to visit, maybe

Would that’ve made a difference?

I wanted to leave, I had to chase dreams

Now I watch you age through a glowing screen

I can’t shake this feeling in my chest

Like something left unsaid, unblessed

Did she hold on for one more day

In case I came home again?

Now I sit here in disbelief

Changed by love and by the grief

Wishing somebody had told me

That time runs faster than you can

You’ll look back on what you had

Then one day you’ll wake up and be

Thirty

A lifetime would end

Around the time I left

And I’m still saying

Goodbye to my friends

Oh my god

Wasn’t it obvious?