Lyric

You were sitting on my suitcase

Name tag hanging by a thread

Laughing at the station timetable

Tracing futures in your head

We were young in that slow-motion summer

Saving up change for a late-night train

You said

“Promise me the small things

Always”

Like coffee by the window when it rains

Every photo that we took kept fading

But the feeling never learned your name

You were my almost-forever

In a world that never stays the same

We got older in a hurry

Different cities

Different keys

You were working double Sundays

I was chasing distant dreams

We were calling from two tired kitchens

Bad connection

But we held that line

You said

“Love me in the quiet moments

Not just when the stars decide to shine”

Every new year had a different countdown

Different faces singing the same rhyme

You were my close-enough-always

In a world running out of time

Met again at your cousin’s wedding

Plastic cups and crooked ties

You said

“Guess we made it somewhere”

I saw questions in your eyes

We were dancing like the past was a rumor

Stepping careful in our borrowed shoes

You said

“Funny how the songs keep changing

But they’re humming the same old truths”

Every decade finds a softer language

New tattoos over the same bruise

You were my never-quite-over

In a world learning how to lose

Now I’m watching my own daughter

Text a love she can’t define

Earbuds in

Her heart wide open

Same old risk in a modern rhyme

They are talking in a thousand emojis

But the ache still sounds like saying “stay”

She said

“How do you know it’s worth it

When it hurts in every age this way?”

Every playlist dressed in different colors

Same old thunder on a new day

You were my once-in-a-lifetime

In a world that loves

Then walks away

Maybe that’s the secret through the ages

Every heart rewrites the same four lines

We meet

We glow

We drift

We wonder

Who we were beneath the passing time

If I could live it all again

I’d find you

At that platform

Same slow train

Same blue sky