Every Time

*Twelve years old…*

*Didn’t know what forever was*

*But somehow… we touched it*

I remember the night I had to say goodbye

You were holding my shirt, trying not to cry

I said I’d come back, you said you’d wait

Two kids promising things that were bigger than fate

I left town with your name tucked in my chest

Every road that I took felt just like a test

You stayed back at the house learning to be strong

I learned how to miss you my whole way along

We grew up separate

But we grew the same

Still saying each other’s name

Through all our pain

We were twelve years old, hands shaking when we kissed

Didn’t know love yet, but we knew we’d miss this

I had to leave, begged you come, but you couldn’t go

So we cried on the phone saying “please don’t let me go”

We tried moving on, but it never felt right

Every few years somehow we’d cross paths in life

No matter the miles, no matter the time

My heart always found you…

Every time

I tried to love someone who was not you

But every single "I love you" felt halfway true

You told me you tried too, heard your voice

Like we were both trapped in a difficult choice

Then years would pass, then you would show up

Same eyes, more scars, filling up my heart's cup

One look and the past would all rush in

Like we never stopped, just pressed pause back then

We were twelve years old, hands shaking when we kissed

Didn’t know love yet, but we knew we’d miss this

I had to leave, begged you come, but you couldn’t go

So we cried on the phone saying “please don’t let me go”

We tried moving on, but it never felt right

Every few years somehow we’d cross paths in life

No matter the miles, no matter the time

My heart always found you…

Every time

Maybe we had to break to survive

Maybe distance taught us how deep this was inside

If love’s a thread that never breaks

Ours stretched across time and space

We were twelve years old, hands shaking when we kissed

Didn’t know love yet, but we knew we’d miss this

I had to leave, begged you come, but you couldn’t go

So we cried on the phone saying “please don’t let me go”

We tried moving on, but it never felt right

Every few years somehow we’d cross paths in life

No matter the miles, no matter the time

My heart always found you…

Every time

"If this is our moment*

"I won’t run away*

"I’ve already lost you too many days"

"From kids in love to hearts grown true"

"I crossed the world…"

"and it led me back to you"