Wasn’t It Obvious

[Verse 1]
A lifetime would end
Around the time I said
Goodbye to my friends
And we swore we'd talk again
But silence crept in slow
Like dust in the window glow
I didn’t know that back then
Oh my god
But wasn’t it obvious?

[Verse 2]
When I packed all my bags
I swore I’d come right back
Didn’t see it would be
Four long years till I’d see my dad
I didn’t know that back then
Oh my god
But wasn’t it obvious?

[Pre-Chorus]
Time runs faster than your plans
Slips right through your open hands
And the past—it fades, it bends
Till it’s just a story’s end

[Chorus]
I’m just trying not to feel stuck
I miss the things I couldn’t keep
I just want to fall asleep
In the bedroom where I grew up
With the posters on the wall
And the hum of late-night calls
Oh, time runs faster than you can
You’ll look back on what you had

[Verse 3]
I clung on to my pride
Built another kind of life
Then one night she would die
Before I said goodbye
And I didn’t know that back then
Oh my god
But wasn’t it obvious?

[Bridge]
Sometimes when I close my eyes
I go ten years back in time
We’re still sitting in your car
Laughing under trembling stars
And I never found a better friend
No, not ever again

These days, they say I sound like you
When I laugh the way you used to do
And I wonder, if I came home
Just to visit, maybe
Would that’ve made a difference?

[Verse 4]
I wanted to leave, I had to chase dreams
Now I watch you age through a glowing screen
I can’t shake this feeling in my chest
Like something left unsaid, unblessed
Did she hold on for one more day
In case I came home again?

[Chorus]
Now I sit here in disbelief
Changed by love and by the grief
Wishing somebody had told me
That time runs faster than you can
You’ll look back on what you had
Then one day you’ll wake up and be
Thirty

[Outro]
A lifetime would end
Around the time I left
And I’m still saying
Goodbye to my friends

Oh my god
Wasn’t it obvious?

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