You Should've Lived

I relive that day

Every second of that moment

Why did it play out that way

How could I have changed that event

I see that sand, that smoke

Every night when I close my eyes

I still see you fall

Like it happened just today

Why did I come home?

Why did you die?

I hear your name in every

Flag that flies

It should've been me

Yeah, I swear sometimes

You should've lived

I should've stayed behind

Tell me, brother

Why did I come home alive?

I sit in the dark each night

Deaf to the world around me

I stare at this photo

Two kids frozen in time

Surrounded in desert sand

Believing we were invincible

You laughed, said "you first"

When we boarded that flight

I still hear that laugh

In the echoes of the night

Why did I come home?

Why did you die?

I hear your name in every

Flag that flies

It should've been me

Yeah, I swear sometimes

You should've lived

I should've stayed behind

Tell me, brother

Why did I come home alive?

I wear your watch

Though it stopped that day

Still I tap the glass

Like it might start up again

Bring you back from the grave

Put me there instead

You stood where I should've

Why did things go that way

Why did I come home?

Why did you die?

I hear your name in every

Flag that flies

It should've been me

God, I scream inside

You should've lived

I should've said goodbye

So I carry you

In every step of mine

But I still ask

Why did I come home alive?