lost door

I found an old road in a photo Two shadows where we used to stop You were there, or maybe I made you Funny what the years will swap I remember words I didn't say A hundred chances slipped away You looked at me, I looked off And that was all it took for us If I could borrow back those years I'd trace it line by line Back to the night before the silence Back before I let you slide I'd go back in time To the life we left behind Find the door I never opened Find the words I left unspoken Would you still be there? Would you still have cared? If I had stayed a little longer Would we have turned into something stronger? Now I'm digging through the years For a love that never started Wondering if you were the one I was too afraid to want Sometimes I pass your old street Just to see if memory still knows me The kitchen window cuts through the trees Like somebody's waiting on a no-show I wonder if you think of it too That almost-life between me and you One wrong turn, one hard night Maybe your hand would've found mine And maybe I'm dressing up What was never mine to lose But every road I take tonight Still bends right back to you I'd go back in time To the life we left behind Find the door I never opened Find the words I left unspoken Would you still be there? Would you still have cared? If I had stayed a little longer Would we have turned into something stronger? Now I'm digging through the years For a love that never started Wondering if you were the one I was too afraid to want Maybe we were never meant to be Maybe you were just there to show me How a moment can vanish clean And still stick around for years If I could stand beside myself On that night I turned away I'd tell her, don't be scared of losing What you haven't had yet But time doesn't turn And doors don't reopen Some things stay bright Because they never broke I'd go back in time Just to find that younger life Where I didn't let the silence Choose for both of us that night Would you still be there? Would I still be scared? Maybe we could've been forever Maybe we were only almost Now I'm digging through the years For the love that never started Holding on to what-ifs Like they know where you are The hall outside's still empty Though nobody's coming I leave it there sometimes For the life we never started And if you're somewhere thinking You remember it the same I'll keep that one small opening For a door I never opened again