Lyric

Coffee steam between our hands

Tiny table

Crowded plans

You laughed

Said

“We’re still kids inside”

But your eyes had storms you tried to hide

Love in slow motion

Stuck in my view

Pages keep turning

They skip back to you

We’re not the same ones we promised we’d be

Still I feel you walking beside me

Old café became a chain

Same address

A different name

I walk in and feel you turn

Like a match I never learned

Love changes colors

Day after day

Fades into shadows

Bright in its way

I hold the echo

Let go of your hand

You’re still the song I don’t understand

Mom once told me hearts grow lines

Little creases

Folded time

Saw our photo in her room

Two kids dancing toward their doom

Love keeps on living where we once stood

Breaking me gently

Somehow it’s good

You were my future

Now you’re my past

Funny how both of them seem to last

You’ve got kids now

So do I

Passing stories

Asking why

Every era writes its rhyme

Same old ache in different times

I watch my daughter trace your face

On a photograph

In silver frames

“Who is she?” she turns to say

“Someone I loved

And let slip away” (Oh)

Love through the ages

Worn at the seams

Built out of heartbreak

Hope

And wild dreams

We kept on turning

Round after round

Losing each other

Then somehow found

Love in slow motion

Then rushing through

Different beginnings

All leading to you

In every lifetime

In stories we tell

You are the almost that taught me to fell

Love keeps on learning what we can’t teach

Hands we can’t hold now

Faces we reach

I close the chapter

I leave in the end

Still

In each lifetime

You’re almost my friend