“The day I saw you again.”

Verse 1

I was standing in a checkout line

On a quiet afternoon

Just another day like any other

Underneath a fading June

Then I heard a voice behind me

Soft but somehow still the same

And every mile of those seven years

Collapsed inside my name

Pre-Chorus

I turned around like time was bending

Like the past had slipped the door

Chorus

And there you were

Just like a memory standing in the light

A thousand words between our eyes

But neither one came out right

All the years and all the distance

All the lives we both went through

Disappeared in half a second

When I looked at you

Verse 2

You smiled like an old photograph

From a life we used to know

Not the girl I once held onto

But someone time helped grow

There was kindness in the silence

And forgiveness in your eyes

Like the ghosts we used to carry

Finally said goodbye

Chorus

And there you were

Not the dream I used to chase

Just a beautiful reminder

Of a time and place

All the love we couldn’t hold onto

All the things we couldn’t do

Somehow felt a little lighter

Standing there with you

Bridge ->[very quiet]

We talked about the weather

And the places life had been

Like two strangers being careful

With the history between

And when you turned to leave me

There was something almost true

You said:

“I’m glad the world once gave me you.”

Final Chorus ->[soft closure]

And there you went

Back into the life you made your own

And I stood there in the silence

But somehow less alone

Because some loves never vanish

Even when they’re finally through

They just change into a story

That the years can’t quite undo

“Somewhere in another lifetime… we didn’t let go.”