EVERY VERSION OF ME

I almost called you

(you did) (you never did)

(not in this version) I took the long way home again

Passed the place we almost met

There are lives I nearly entered

There are words I haven't said

At the corner I kept walking

Somewhere else I turned around

Maybe every choice keeps singing Even when we make no sound One

of me stayed

One of me ran One of me still holds your hand And

I— (I) (I) (I) (I)

Every version of me Is singing at once

One says leave One says love One says nothing was enough

Every version of me Knows a different end But tonight For a

moment I can hear all of them

Stay

Go Wait

Don't Stay Go Wait— I don't know

I woke up with your name missing

(I woke up next to you) (I never learned your name) The

morning looked the same In one room I forgive you

In one room

You forgive me

In one room We never happened

Still the kettle starts to sing

One of me is older

One never changed One still thinks we had one more day And

I can hear them

Closer now

Every version of me

Is singing at once

One says leave One says love

One says we were never us

Every version of me

Moves a different way

But somehow

Every road Keeps arriving at your name

I almost called you (You did) (Tomorrow) (Yesterday) (You still will) (Don't)

(Call) (Don't call) (Stay) (Leave) (Begin) (Again) (Forget) (Remember) I— I— I—

I—

There must be a world Where I chose perfectly

I don't want it

There must be a version Who never lost anything

I don't know her Let her go

Every version of me

Was singing at once

Every wrong

turn Every almost Every person I became But listen— They're getting quieter

One by one

One by one Until there's only Me

I almost called you.

... I didn't.