The Life We Nearly Had — Yara Washington

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I don't keep your photograph

Beside the bed anymore

I don't turn when someone laughs

The way you did before

I've learned to live without you

Better than I thought I could

But sometimes I remember

All the things we said we would

We had names for all our tomorrows

Plans we thought were ours to keep

Funny how the dreams that never happened

Can be the hardest ones to leave

I don't miss the life we had

I miss the life we nearly had

The rooms we never filled with laughter

The years we thought would follow after

I miss the mornings yet to come

Growing older with someone

We came so close to everything

And maybe that's what hurts so bad

I don't miss the life we had

I miss the life we nearly had

There was a house we used to talk about

Somewhere close enough to sea

You wanted windows facing east

You said the garden was for me

We'd complain about the weather

Lose our glasses, lose our keys

And laugh about how young we looked

In photographs at twenty-three

Those little things seemed so certain

We spent them like they were already ours

Now I know you can lose a lifetime

Before you've lived a single hour

I don't miss the life we had

I miss the life we NEARLY had

The rooms we never filled with laughter

The years we thought would follow after

I miss the mornings yet to come

Growing older with someone

We came so close to everything

And maybe that's what hurts so bad

I don't miss the life we had

I miss the life we nearly had

Maybe love was never the problem

Maybe love was all we knew

We just let the small things matter

More than what was me and you

And if I had one night to change it

I don't know what I would do

Because the road that brought me here

Still carries something good from you

So I won't say we wasted it

I won't say we failed

Some loves don't last forever

But that doesn't make them less real

I don't miss the life we had

I miss the life we nearly had

The birthdays and the Sunday dinners

The arguments nobody wins

I miss your hand when mine grew old

All the stories never told

We came so close to everything

Close enough to understand

That sometimes what you grieve the most

Isn't what slipped through your hands

It's every day that never came

Every promise time never had

I don't miss the life we had

I miss the life we NEARLY had

The life we nearly had

Sometimes I can see it still

Not behind me

Just somewhere

We never got to live

Performed by: Yara Washington 

Creative Direction & Executive Production: Peter Pickering

Creative Production & Release Management: Parichad

Digital Publishing & Platform Operations: Tankawin Khong On

Recorded at Sessions on the Green® Studio 2

A Sessions on the Green® production

Publisher: Sessions on the Green®

Songwriter / Legal Rights: Peter Pickering

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