Verse 1
You always ordered things you wouldn’t finish
A coffee, a movie, a plan for your life
You’d talk about moving to California
Then spend three straight days inside
You had a talent for making strangers
Tell you things they’d never tell their friends
And somehow by the end of every party
You knew how everybody’s story ends
Pre-Chorus
I thought I knew you
That’s the funny part
I memorized the details
And still missed your heart
Chorus
We were the wrong side of twenty-one
Too young to know what love becomes
Old enough to make promises
Young enough to think they couldn’t break
You said we’d laugh about this later
Like everybody always does
But some things don’t get smaller with distance
They just get quieter than they were
Verse 2
I saw your brother at a grocery store
He asked me how I’d been
I almost said, “Tell her I still think about…”
Then stopped before the sentence could begin
Funny how the hardest part of losing
Isn’t losing what you had
It’s meeting someone years later
And realizing they’re not coming back
Pre-Chorus
Not the version
You built your future around
The one who’s still alive somewhere
Just not the one you found
Chorus
We were the wrong side of twenty-one
Too young to know what love becomes
Old enough to make promises
Young enough to think they couldn’t break
You said we’d laugh about this later
Like everybody always does
But some things don’t get smaller with distance
They just get quieter than they were
Bridge
And I don’t miss you every day now
The way I once believed I would
But every now and then I hear your name
And remember everything at once
Not the heartbreak
Not the ending
Just the feeling of becoming
Someone because you knew them
Final Chorus
We were the wrong side of twenty-one
Trying to outrun who we’d become
Holding on to versions of ourselves
That disappeared before we knew
And if I saw you tomorrow
I’d probably smile and ask about your life
But part of me will always wonder
What happened on the road we didn’t drive
Weber
