[Intro – soft piano, distant vocals]
I never knew a photograph
Could feel this much like coming back…
Now you’re gone,
And they’re all I have.
[Verse 1]
Your Tee cup is somewhere in a box,
Your name still lives inside my thoughts.
I used to think we had forever,
So I never held the moments close enough.
You smiled at me in every frame,
Back when love still felt the same.
I never thought these little pictures
Would be the only place you’d stay.
[Pre-Chorus]
And now I zoom into your eyes,
Like maybe I could turn back time.
I’d tell my younger self standing next to you:
“Don’t lose the best thing in your life.”
[Chorus]
Regret… regret…
It’s the only thing I haven’t lost yet.
I miss you more than words can say,
But maybe I’m already too late.
I want you back, I always do,
But wanting doesn’t lead to you.
Now every picture hurts somehow—
I never knew they’d mean this much
Until you weren’t around.
[Verse 2]
I scroll through summers late at night,
Frozen sunsets, city lights.
We looked so young, we looked so certain,
Like goodbye would never cross our minds.
There are videos I cannot play,
Because I still remember every day.
The way you laughed behind the camera—
God, I miss that sound in every way.
And if I knew what I know now,
I would have loved you better somehow.
I would have listened when you needed me,
Instead of thinking you would never leave.
[Pre-Chorus]
Now all our memories glow in blue,
From a screen that brings me back to you.
And every time I see us smile,
I forget that you’re not mine.
[Chorus]
Regret… regret…
It’s the only thing I haven’t lost yet.
I miss you more than words can say,
But maybe I’m already too late.
I want you back, I always do,
But wanting doesn’t lead to you.
Now every picture hurts somehow—
I never knew they’d mean this much
Until you weren’t around.
[Bridge – almost whispered]
Maybe somewhere in another life,
I see the warning in your eyes.
Maybe I don’t let my pride
Turn forever into goodbye.
Maybe you still wear my name
Like something beautiful, not pain.
But here I am, holding photographs,
Trying to touch a love I can’t get back.
(background vocals)
“Come back… come back…”
“Too late… too late…”
[Final Chorus – strings rise]
Regret… regret…
I would give anything to forget—
Not you, not us, not what we had,
Just every way I made you sad.
I want you back, but love can change,
And sorry doesn’t heal all pain.
So I keep our pictures safe somehow,
Because they’re worth more than the world
Now that you’re not around.
[Outro – quiet piano]
I never knew a photograph
Could be a home I can’t go back to…
I never knew I’d miss you like this.
I never thought we’d end like this.
Regret…
Regret…
And every picture means more now...
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