The book was written for someone else

To give perspective on our regrets

The book wasn't read

Full of passages that moved us that we'll forget

(something we couldn't be, swallow your suffering over again)

(then we tried, we left, we lied, still inside)

(done all we could do)

Shuffling along to the beat of your own inner dialogue

All this time I've been tumbling in a vacuum

There's no terminal vеlocity

And from all I've learned I know еventually I'm gonna be

Falling at light speed

And I don't know how it works

But with the time dilation

I just fear you're gonna be

Grown more so than me

When I get home you'll have outgrown me

Don't feel bad, there was nothing we could do

Nothing could ever get through to you

(so you're alone now)

If you could do it all again, would you do anything different?

Would it even make a difference?

Can we go back again to the start?

We sat anticipating

A meeting in a parking lot

So much for the future

Always found a way to failure

When will you finally understand it

Exactly what you're running from?

So you said...

Often you would open, and even more often you would shut down

And nobody offered any help, they didn't know a thing

Often you would look back

And often you'd watch yourself again

You never understood why it looked so different

Never learned a thing

So we dreamed of a different life

One where we're closer to the ones we love

(you can't deny)

On and on, tethered to our past

We can't just build new roads

But we can break them apart

We can make them again