Never Was

(120 BPM • dark pop / alt pop / indie pop vibe)

(ghosty synths + heartbeat kick)

Ooh, ooh... yeah...

I still see your name in places you never were

Replay the fights and the nights that we never blurred

I built a life inside a thought

Now every road feels like a plot

I keep chasing what we didn’t do

Like it’s tattooed on my skin

I can’t forgive myself

For letting a dream begin

🎶 I’m haunted by the past that never was (never was)

By every could-have, every just because

I feel the weight of every choice I made

Now I can’t outrun the mess I made

🎶 Haunted by a life I didn’t live

By every take I didn’t give

It’s killing me to know

That ghosts can grow (ghosts can grow...)

From the seeds you never sow

Ooh-oh... oh-oh...

Past that never was... yeah

Scroll through the pictures that we never took

Still hear your laugh in the lines of a song or book

I thought regret would fade with time

But it’s aged like a bitter wine

I can’t change the words I never spoke

I can’t unwrite the notes

I wish I’d burned that bridge

But I just built a boat

🎶 I’m haunted by the past that never was (never was)

By every could-have, every just because

I feel the weight of every choice I made

Now I can’t outrun the mess I made

🎶 Haunted by a life I didn’t live

By every take I didn’t give

It’s killing me to know

That ghosts can grow (ghosts can grow...)

From the seeds you never sow

Was it fear, was it pride, was it fate?

I don’t know, but it’s too late

Now every mirror’s telling me

I chose the ghost, not destiny

🎶 I’m haunted by the past that never was (never was)

By every could-have, every just because

I feel the weight of every choice I made

Now I can’t outrun the mess I made

🎶 Haunted by a life I didn’t live

By every take I didn’t give

It’s killing me to know

That ghosts can grow

From the seeds you never sow

Past that never was... oh... oh...

(haunted, haunted)

Ooh... yeah...