[Verse 1]
Somebody laughed and said, “It’s a mirror day,” and I just smiled along,
‘Cause I was thinking ‘bout my coffee and the list of things gone wrong.
Then all at once it hit me like a voice I’d almost learned to lose—
Today’s the day I met the boy who made me think I’d found the truth.
Back then I would’ve known the date before the sun had reached the sky,
I’d count the years before I counted birthdays passing by.
You called me every night for months and told me love was something real,
So tell me how was I supposed to know which parts I shouldn’t feel?
[Pre-Chorus]
Maybe you loved me till the fear became too much to face.
Maybe I built forever from a smile upon your face.
Eight years later, all I know is neither one can be proved true…
And somehow I’ve learned to live with never knowing you.
[Chorus]
I thought my whole life ended when you walked away that night.
I thought every door would close, I’d never get it right.
I swore nobody else would ever make my heartbeat race,
‘Cause every dream I had somehow still ended with your face.
But time is slow and quiet—it never asks your leave.
It steals the things you swore you’d never, ever let it steal.
And maybe healing isn’t waking up without the pain…
Maybe it’s hearing today’s date and having to think again.
[Verse 2]
For years I’d write your memory into places no one knew,
Hiding pieces of my heart inside the smallest things I’d do.
I memorized the version of you that never got to grow,
While somewhere you were living a whole life I’d never know.
I’d tell myself you had been scared because that hurt a little less
Than thinking all those whispered words were nothing but a guess.
I waited for a message that I knew would never come,
Not because I still believed—but because I couldn’t quite be done.
[Bridge]
Sometimes I still imagine what I’d ask if we should meet:
“Did you ever really love me?”—simple words that sound so deep.
But if the answer came tomorrow, would it change the years I’ve lived?
Would it give me back the boy I was—or only what he missed?
The truth is, I don’t miss the man who’s somewhere out there now.
I miss the one I carried in my heart all those years somehow.
[Final Chorus]
I thought my whole life ended when you walked away that night.
Now you’re just a chapter that I don’t reread every night.
The love I felt was real enough; I don’t have to make it small.
It shaped the person standing here—it wasn’t wasted after all.
And time is slow and quiet—it doesn’t ask your leave.
One day it lets you breathe again before you even see.
So when somebody smiled and said, “It’s a mirror day,” I smiled too…
Because the date remembered you before I ever had to.
[Outro]
I hope the life you chose became the one you needed most.
I hope you found the peace you couldn’t find when we were close.
As for me, I’m still becoming someone I have yet to be…
But this day doesn’t belong to you.
It finally belongs to me.
