Ghosts We Never Were

Verse 1

I still remember your fingers in mine,

The way we'd chase the city past midnight.

Coffee stains and crooked smiles,

Getting lost just to waste a little time.

You'd steal my jacket when the air turned cold,

I'd kiss your forehead, you'd call me home.

Every little scar I knew by heart...

At least that's how I saw us.

Pre-Chorus

We broke, we healed, we learned to stay.

Found our light through every gray.

Or maybe that's the lie I tell...

To make this silence hurt a little less.

Chorus

Funny, isn't it?

I miss the memories we never got to make.

I wanna walk with you beneath the rain,

Hear you laughing while you say my name.

Dance in the kitchen till the morning comes,

Watch the sunrise wrapped up in your arms.

Stay beside me through the highs and lows,

Like we always found our way back home.

How can my heart ache this way

For a love that never came?

I'm homesick for a place that never was...

Funny, isn't it?

Verse 2

I watched us growing old a thousand times,

Turning silver hair to inside jokes.

Holding you when life got hard,

Somehow we'd always find the hope.

We made it through the worst of days,

Celebrated every little win.

Built a lifetime, brick by brick...

Inside a world that didn't exist.

Bridge

Every anniversary... imagined.

Every promise... unwritten.

Every photograph... invisible.

Every "I love you"... trapped inside my head.

(Softly)

You were never there.

Final Chorus

Funny, isn't it?

I miss the memories we never got to make.

I still reach for you inside the dark,

Still know the map of your imaginary heart.

We laughed, we cried, we fell apart...

At least that's how I played my part.

How can I grieve what never lived?

Why does it hurt like this?

I keep missing all the moments

That only ever lived inside my mind.

I'm homesick for a place that never was...

Funny, isn't it?

Outro

I'm sorry... I never said hello.

Maybe if I'd crossed that room,

These memories would've been real...

Instead of echoes inside my head.

Maybe we'd have danced beneath that rain.

Maybe you would've known my name.

Maybe all these years

Would've been something more than dreams.

But I convinced myself

I was never enough for someone like you.

So I loved you from a distance...

And built a whole life...

You never knew existed.