We talk like friends, but my heart misreads it Every time you smile, I fall a little further You tell me he's good, and I nod But it's hard not to feel what I'm not supposed to I keep my hands in my pockets Trying not to cross that silence You were almost mine In a life that never started Now I live between what's right And what my heart keeps repeating You walk beside me, unaware And I'm learning how to breathe through it He calls your name, and you turn And I lose my words again I keep my hands in my pockets Trying not to show what I promise You were almost mine In a world that never happened Now I live between what's safe And what still burns beneath it Maybe love is just bad timing Right person, wrong horizon So I'll smile, stay kind And love you quietly from behind the line You were almost mine And maybe that's the reason Why every song I write Still sounds like you breathing