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
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