Lyric

You were “Summer” in my contacts

Sunburn on that old front porch

Laughing at the way I stumbled

When I tried to say too much

Paper cups and melted ice

Your head on my tired shoulder

We were young and calling forever

Like it came with getting older

If we change our names in every lifetime

I’ll still know your coffee laugh

Your sideways smile

Even when the seasons never rewind

I’ll keep tracing every mile

We don’t end

We just turn pages

Same two hearts in stranger faces

If we change our names in every lifetime

I’ll still find you for a while

You were “Monday” in my inbox

Short text

Said you couldn’t stay

We were standing by the crosswalk

Red light

Then you walked away

All our plans in folded tickets

Faded in the glovebox dust

You said

“Love is not a movie”

But you still looked back at us

This is how a quiet goodbye sounds

No slammed doors

Just an echo in the hall

I still hear your footsteps in this small town

Even when you never call

We were almost

We were nearly

Now we’re shadows passing clearly

This is how a quiet goodbye sounds

Like we never met at all

You were “Maybe” on my late nights

Half-written messages unsent

I kept scrolling through our highlights

Like that screen could pay the rent

Friends all say I should erase you

Trade your ghost for something new

But my heart keeps every version

Every draft that led to you

I keep loving you in different tenses

Was and will and might collide

Past and future climbing fences

Into what I feel inside

In the mirror

I forgive us

For the promises we dropped

I keep loving you in different tenses

Even where the story stopped

You were “Always” in my journal

Printed on a fragile page

Now you’re “Once” and somehow gentle

Softened by a little age

Saw your picture through a window

On a street I used to know

Didn’t hurt the way I feared it

Just a warm and distant glow

Now I bless the roads that brought you

And the exits where you turned

All the lessons that we borrowed

All the bridges that we burned

I can smile at what we couldn’t

Hold your name and let it roam

Now I bless the roads that brought you

As I walk myself back home

[Music shifts: deeper drums

Rising strings

Echoing guitar]

Every time we come together

We’re a little more awake

Same two souls

A bit more careful

With the hearts we choose to break

If there’s one more chance tomorrow

If the circles spin us through

I’ll be standing in the doorway

With a brand‑new name for you (Oh)

If we change our names in every lifetime

I’ll still know your coffee laugh

Your sideways smile

Even when the seasons never rewind

I’ll keep tracing every mile

We don’t end

We just turn pages

Same two hearts in stranger faces

If we change our names in every lifetime

I’ll still find you for a while