Almost

I walked past your shadow on a street I don’t remember

Same city breathing us in

You laughed somewhere behind a wall of noise and weather

I felt it, didn’t know where you’d been

I was late to a train that left without me

You were early, standing one car down

Every night I thought that something was missing

Guess we were close, just not around

Funny how the world keeps secrets

Till the second you slow it down

Every step I took was leading

To the moment I turned around

We were almost something a thousand times

Same stars, different skies

Every “not yet”, every wrong goodbye

Was just time passing by

One breath, one look, one hello

And suddenly everything aligned

We were almost everything all our lives

Till you were mine

You cried on a night I was wide awake

Staring holes in the ceiling alone

We were learning all the same mistakes

Just on different roads back home

I kissed all the wrong reasons

You waited for something real

All the love I thought I wasted

Was just teaching me how this should feel

If I’d stayed, if you’d left

If I’d blinked, if you’d gone

This forever disappears

On a second too long

We were almost something a thousand times

Passing close but never colliding

Every heartbreak drew a perfect line

Straight to the night you arrived

One word, one smile, one slow turn

And the universe changed its mind

We were almost everything all our lives

Till you were mine

All the nights I thought I missed you

I just hadn’t met you yet

Every door that slammed shut

Was protecting this instead

If fate’s just timing with a heartbeat

Then it waited till we were ready

‘Cause love didn’t find us screaming

It found us steady

We were almost something a thousand times

Now I know the reason why

Every almost had to survive

So this could feel this right

One moment, nothing loud

Just your hand finding mine

We were almost everything all our lives

Till the stars fell in line

Funny how forever

Starts with staying five more minutes

I was almost gone

But I didn’t miss it