The One That Got Away (And Stayed Away)

Saw your picture in a café window

Laughing at a joke I’ll never hear

His arm around you like it’s always been there

Like I was just a passing year

I still reach for you in crowded rooms

Then I remember

That’s not my move

You changed your hair

You changed your street

Guess I’m the only thing you left back in last week

You’re the one that got away and found someone new

You’re the home I planned to build that you gave to him too

I was busy holding on to someday

You were already packing up your suitcase

You’re the one that got away and stayed away

And I’m the one who stayed the same

Friends keep saying that I’m better without you

They don’t see me driving past your place

Windows up

Radio loud

Heart louder

Still slowing down like you might wave

I still talk to you inside my head

You’re already talking in his bed

Your name is inked in all my plans

But you’re erasing me with someone else’s hands

You’re the one that got away and found someone new

You’re the home I planned to build that you gave to him too

I was busy holding on to someday

You were already packing up your suitcase

You’re the one that got away and stayed away

And I’m the one who stayed the same

Maybe you were never mine to miss

Just a lesson in the shape of a first kiss

You closed the door so gently that day

I didn’t hear it lock until I saw his face

You’re the one that got away and found someone new

You’re the song I still replay while he’s singing with you

I was busy holding on to someday

You were already done with all our always

You’re the one that got away and stayed away

So I guess it’s me

Who has to change