She’ll never know

I remember tellin’ everybody, “Man, you’ve gotta meet this girl.”

She carried midnight in her eyes but somehow lit my world.

She laughed like she invented happiness and lent it out for free,

Every room she walked into just felt like home to me.

She danced with reckless confidence, sang every wrong note loud,

Never cared who stared at her, she’d smile above the crowd.

She’d steal my hoodie every fall and swear that it was hers,

Funny how the little things become the ones that hurt.

I wasn’t lookin’ for forever…

’Til forever looked like her.

I fell in love with the way she made ordinary feel like gold.

Every little memory still warms me when I’m cold.

Now we’re just two strangers wearing pieces of the past,

Holding onto photographs that couldn’t make us last.

If loving means forgetting, then I guess I’ll never learn…

‘Cause every road I’ve ever taken somehow leads to her.

We built a future in our heads before we built ourselves.

Dreams stacked high like empty bottles lined up on the shelf.

We let our pride do all the talking when our hearts were terrified,

Two people screaming “I’m okay” while slowly dying inside.

Maybe I held on too tightly.

Maybe she let go too soon.

Maybe love ain’t always enough

To save two broken souls.

People ask if I’ve moved on… I always fake a grin.

Truth is, she’s the chapter that I still keep reading in.

I’ve met a thousand faces, but none can wear her smile.

Some loves leave your hands…

But never leave your life.

I still love the girl who’d laugh until she couldn’t breathe.

The one who made forever sound like something we’d believe.

Maybe she’s somebody else’s happy ending now,

Maybe she don’t think about the promises somehow.

But if she ever wonders if I meant the words back then…

I’d fall in love with her all over again…

Even knowing how it ends.

Some stories aren’t supposed to last forever.

Some people are meant to change you instead.

She’ll probably never hear this song…

But every line was written because of her.