Almost had you

Verse 1]

You were the spark in every room

The quiet fire I never knew

I watched you smile, I memorized

Every laugh, every tear in your eyes

I’d walk you home, you’d never see

The way my heart would skip a beat

You talked about some other guy

And I just nodded with a lie

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I almost told you every time

How much I dreamed you’d just be mine

But I stayed silent, let it slide

Now you’re dancing through some other life

And I’m stuck in the memory

Of what we were that we’d never be

You’ll never know how much it hurt

To love you first, and lose you worst

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You called me “best,” you called me “friend”

I bit my tongue again and again

You leaned on me when your heart broke

I bled inside and you never knew

You found someone who makes you glow

And I smiled wide and let you go

’Cause loving you meant standing back

And never getting what I never had

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I almost told you every time

How much I dreamed you’d just be mine

But I stayed silent, let it slide

Now you’re dancing through some other life

And I’m stuck in the memory

Of what we were that we’d never be

You’ll never know how much it hurt

To love you first, and lose you worst

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And maybe in another life

You’d turn around and say you’re mine

But in this one, I play the fool

The boy who loved too much too true

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I almost told you every time

But goodbyes hit like lullabies

And now you wear a wedding ring

While I write songs you’ll never sing

Still stuck in the memory

Of what we were that we’d never be

You’ll never know how much it hurt

To love you first…

And lose you worst