“Almost Told You”

I was one breath away

From changing everything...

But I stayed quiet.

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You were laughing in the glow

Of a thousand fairy lights

And I rehearsed it in my head

A hundred thousand times

You said, “what?” and looked my way

I just smiled and said, “it’s nothing”

But what I meant was “you’re my everything”

And now... it’s all gone missing

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Now she holds your hand

Like I dreamt I would

And I pretend I’m fine

Like heartbreak tastes good

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I almost told you / Right before the lights went low

Almost kissed you / But I let my silence grow

Now I’m quiet in your shadow / With a heart you’ll never know

I almost told you...

But I let you go

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I watched her call you “babe”

With the voice I used at night

When I whispered to my pillow

That one day you’d be mine

You always saw right through me

But not deep enough to find

The girl who wrote you love songs

In the corners of her mind

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Now my chances sleep

In the spaces we forgot

And every almost-memory

Is everything I’m not

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I almost told you / Right before the lights went low

Almost kissed you / But I let my silence grow

Now I’m quiet in your shadow / With a heart you’ll never know

I almost told you...

But I let you go

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If I had one more yesterday

I’d trade it just to say...

All the things I buried deep

The ones that never got away

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I almost told you / And I still see it play

Like a ghost I live with / Every single day

Now your heart belongs to someone

Who was brave enough to stay

And I almost told you...

But I let you slip away