Corner of 7th and Gone

Verse 1

You were wearing that coat you hate

Dragging a suitcase full of duct-taped fate

I was late, I was high, I was halfway through

A letter to no one that sounded like you

There were sirens like punctuation marks

Between everything we didn’t say in the dark

You said, “Let’s not do this dance again”

But you turned on your heel at the count of ten

Chorus

And we were born to break like sidewalks crack

Under footsteps that never look back

All these cities blur like a charcoal sketch

You were almost mine, I was nearly wrecked

We were never here — just passing through

Corner of 7th and Gone with you

Verse 2

You left your book on the kitchen floor

Half-read, half-true, I don’t read it anymore

I drove past the bar where we first got loud

Where you sang with a stranger and I felt proud

Now I’m back in the place we swore we’d leave

Paying rent on a promise I still believe

The neighbors moved, the landlord died

But your laugh still echoes in the stairwell wide

Chorus

Yeah, we were meant to crash like borrowed time

Like a song that forgets its final rhyme

And I still rewind to that last “don’t go”

Though I know you were gone before the snow

We were never whole — just split in two

Corner of 7th and Gone with you

Bridge

The crosswalk changed and I stayed behind

Like I was waiting for some kind of sign

But there’s no lesson here, no perfect frame

Just your voice in my mouth when I say my name

Final Chorus

So I toast to the ghosts in the coffee steam

To the almosts, the could’ves, the fever dream

You once said, “Nothing ever ends clean”

I still wear that line in my ripped blue jeans

We were never lost — we just never knew

The way out of 7th and Gone with you