[Intro – filtered synth, distant echo]
Mm…
Yeah…
We were close.
[Verse 1 – quiet, reflective]
I still know the sound of your breathing
When the room was barely awake.
You’d talk like the future was waiting,
But we never let it stay.
I held you like something borrowed,
Like time was counting us down.
Every moment felt fragile,
Like love that wasn’t allowed.
[Pre-Chorus – soft lift]
You’d say, “We’re fine, don’t overthink,”
But I felt the ending in between.
[Chorus – aching, melodic]
We were almost us, almost real,
Almost something I could feel.
You were mine in the quiet hours,
Then gone when the morning came.
We were almost us, almost there,
Said forever but we never dared.
I still love you in ways I don’t show,
In places you’ll never know.
[Post-Chorus – echoed hum]
Mm-mm…
Almost.
[Verse 2 – deeper, restrained]
I see your name in passing moments,
In songs I don’t finish now.
Every word you never promised
Still finds a way back around.
You looked at me like you meant it,
But your heart was somewhere else.
I don’t blame you for leaving,
I blame myself for hoping it’d help.
[Pre-Chorus – emotional tension]
You said, “Love shouldn’t hurt this way,”
But we let it anyway.
[Chorus – fuller, layered]
We were almost us, almost true,
Almost everything I wanted from you.
You felt safe in the dead of night,
Then distant by the light of day.
We were almost us, almost right,
Held together by maybes and time.
I still miss you more than I should,
Even knowing we never could.
[Bridge – stripped, intimate]
If I could rewind the space between us,
I wouldn’t ask for more.
I’d just stay a little longer
At the edge of what we were.
[Final Chorus – soft release]
We were almost us, that’s the truth,
Not enough to hold, enough to bruise.
You were love without a name,
A memory that still remains.
If you ever wonder where I went,
I’m still here with what we meant.
We weren’t meant to last, I guess—
Just meant to feel like this.
[Outro – fading synth, breathy echo]
Mm…
Almost us.
