Half of a lifetime later

VERSE 1

We met where the river kissed the trees,

Late July, your hoodie on me.

You said forever like it meant right then,

But forever’s shorter when you’re just ten past ten.

I watched you go chase your big-city dreams,

I stayed behind, built a life it seems.

But every time I hear that old song play,

I still feel seventeen that day.

You can’t rewind, but you can remember,

The look in your eyes that burned like ember.

And here we are, older now,

Different rings, different vows.

But one hello and the years fall down,

We’re right back in that hometown sound.

The fire never died, just hid between,

The lines of when we were seventeen.

You tell me life’s been kind and cruel,

We laugh like kids, breaking all the rules.

The coffee’s cold, but the moment’s warm,

Your touch still feels like a thunderstorm.

I’m wearing pearls, you’re wearing regret,

Both of us trying to forget.

But every word just pulls me in,

To a love we lost, but never dimmed.

You say, “I thought of you sometimes,”

And my heart answers, “You were always mine”

And here we are, older now,

Different rings, different vows.

But one hello and the years fall down,

We’re right back in that hometown sound.

The fire never died, just hid between,

The lines of when we were seventeen.

BRIDGE

Maybe in another time,

We’d get it right, you’d still be mine.

But fate had other songs to play,

Still, I’d choose you anyway.

FINAL CHORUS

Now here we are, the years gone by,

You smile and I can’t tell a lie.

My heart still skips, it always will,

For that boy beneath the hill.

The world moved on, but we still dream,

Of who we were… when we were seventeen.

OUTRO

When we were seventeen…

You were my whole world then.

Maybe you still are.