What Could've Been
Now I sit and reminisce
The could've beens
You don't know how it felt saying the words I said to you
Not the way it should've ended, but it's what I had to do
Hearing you cry down the phone was the worst thing that I'd heard
Breaking your heart was a lesson I never thought I'd learn
When you hung up did you sit there or crawl back to your home?
I knew your family were there, but you were crestfallen alone
I think of it now and ask, 'how was I so cruel?'
Always a lose lose
It was a battle of fools
Now I sit and reminisce
The could've beens
If I'd given you more closure
If you'd been a braver soldier
Winter wouldn't get any colder
We could've been
Veterans that didn't need bunkers
But we were both outnumbered
Didn't know we'd need to wonder
What could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
A fiend for freedom when all you wanted was my love
I was turbulent, and when push came to shove
It was getting hard to figure out who grew more thorns
I watched as we became what only ghosts could mourn
Now I sit and reminisce
The could've beens
If I hadn't been a damned over-thinker
If you'd never let them whisper
Kept me in your rear-view mirror
We could've been
An unknown telephone number
You didn't pick up when we were younger
Two souls left to wonder
What could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Maybe I messed this up
I wasn't good enough
I should've treated you better
I blamed it on the weather
Storms darkening my head
The skin I should've shed
Now that I know better
Don't you think we're better off?
I think we are better off
Are we better off?
We're better off
Now I sit and reminisce the could've beens
If I wasn't such a fault finder
If you were a lover, not a fighter
Not struck the match that started my fire
We could've been
A great love, now we've sunk under
This ship tore us asunder
Do you look back and wonder?
What could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
(we could've been)
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Now I sit and reminisce
The could've beens
You don't know how it felt saying the words I said to you
Not the way it should've ended, but it's what I had to do
Hearing you cry down the phone was the worst thing that I'd heard
Breaking your heart was a lesson I never thought I'd learn
When you hung up did you sit there or crawl back to your home?
I knew your family were there, but you were crestfallen alone
I think of it now and ask, 'how was I so cruel?'
Always a lose lose
It was a battle of fools
Now I sit and reminisce
The could've beens
If I'd given you more closure
If you'd been a braver soldier
Winter wouldn't get any colder
We could've been
Veterans that didn't need bunkers
But we were both outnumbered
Didn't know we'd need to wonder
What could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
A fiend for freedom when all you wanted was my love
I was turbulent, and when push came to shove
It was getting hard to figure out who grew more thorns
I watched as we became what only ghosts could mourn
Now I sit and reminisce
The could've beens
If I hadn't been a damned over-thinker
If you'd never let them whisper
Kept me in your rear-view mirror
We could've been
An unknown telephone number
You didn't pick up when we were younger
Two souls left to wonder
What could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Maybe I messed this up
I wasn't good enough
I should've treated you better
I blamed it on the weather
Storms darkening my head
The skin I should've shed
Now that I know better
Don't you think we're better off?
I think we are better off
Are we better off?
We're better off
Now I sit and reminisce the could've beens
If I wasn't such a fault finder
If you were a lover, not a fighter
Not struck the match that started my fire
We could've been
A great love, now we've sunk under
This ship tore us asunder
Do you look back and wonder?
What could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
(we could've been)
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Ah-ah-ah-ah what could've been
Now I sit and reminisce
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Writer(s): Jordan Ayriss
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