The Things I Never Said

I saw your name beneath her photograph

Smiled at the screen,

then turned it back

Funny how a little rectangle

Can make a whole room feel unbearable

I rehearsed the words a thousand times

But every version sounded wrong tonight

These are the things I never said The words that circled through

my head I should’ve told you when we had the chance

I should’ve reached for your hand Instead I watched you disappear

With everything I couldn’t make you hear

I know I don’t get to rewrite endings

Or change the roads that we’ve been bending

But sometimes truth arrives too late

And waits outside an empty gate

If I could have one minute back

One honest moment, one last chance I’d tell you everything

I’d tell you everything (tell you everything)

These are the things I never said The words that still live

in my head I should’ve told you

I was scared I should’ve told you I cared

Now every quiet room I enter Reminds me what I couldn’t remember