Verse 1
It started with midnight phone calls,
Hours disappearing into dawn.
You’d ask me what this thing could be,
And I’d smile after you were gone.
You felt different from the others,
Like maybe this was finally it.
I mistook hope for certainty,
And never questioned any of it.
Then the silence came between us,
Months of words we never said.
You said I should’ve tried harder,
And I carried all that weight instead.
Looking back now, maybe that was
The first crack I chose not to see.
You weren’t listening when I needed you,
But I was hearing what I wanted to believe.
Chorus
I should’ve seen it then,
The way you always held me at arm’s length.
Close enough to keep me hoping,
Far enough to never risk a thing.
I called it patience,
I called it timing,
I called it love when it broke my heart.
Now I know some red flags don’t look red,
When you’re staring at them in the dark.
Verse 2
When Ash was taken and my whole world shattered,
You were the one who stayed close by.
You held the pieces when I couldn’t carry them,
And wiped the tears from my eyes.
That’s the part nobody would understand,
Why I stayed for all those years.
Because you were there when I was breaking,
You became the safest place through all my fears.
I trusted you with every secret,
Every dream I couldn’t say aloud.
And somewhere in all that healing,
I fell in love and fell hard.
Chorus
I should’ve seen it then,
The way you never really stepped inside.
You’d stand at the doorway of forever,
But never cross the line.
I called it patience,
I called it timing,
I called it love when it broke my heart.
Now I know some red flags don’t look red,
When you’re staring at them in the dark.
Verse 3
I remember dinners and motorbike rides,
Your hand reaching back to find my leg.
The kisses that felt like promises,
The memories I still haven’t forgotten yet.
But I was building a future from moments,
While you were only living in them.
I thought we were writing the same story,
Now I know I was reading more into it than him.
And maybe I should’ve noticed,
How I was always the one reaching first.
How loving you felt beautiful one minute,
And lonely the next.
You never spoke about forever,
Not the way I dreamed you would.
And every time things got too close,
You’d pull away, though I never understood.
Bridge
I wish I’d seen the signs sooner,
Before I gave you so much of me.
Before I confused potential
With what we’d actually be.
Before I spent years waiting
For a love that never arrived.
Before I lost more than a relationship,
Before I lost a future in my mind.
Because that’s the part that stays with me—
Not the goodbye, not even the pain.
It’s wondering who we’d have become
If you’d chosen to stay.
Final Chorus
I should’ve seen it then,
The way your heart was never fully here.
Not because you didn’t care about me,
But because you carried too many fears.
And I still love the memories,
Even though they leave scars.
But now I know some red flags don’t look red,
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