Why can’t you be the way that I am?
Why couldn’t you make this easy?

No. You had to look at her
And take your glance away from me.
Why couldn’t it have been
The way I’ve seen it in my dream?

I thought that you’d just invaded my heart,
And would play and then leave like the others
But, no, you came in and you ripped it apart,
And you stayed in my mind all the way through

The way you smiled just to tease me,
And pushed your hair back, oh so smooth.
I asked my friend to introduce us,
I just didn’t know what else to do.

And then I sat just right behind you,
As soon as I got up the nerve,
And we talked like you’d known me forever.
And my happiness could find not a word.

One day you looked me right in the eyes and said,
“Is there anything you cannot do?”
I searched through my mind for an answer, and finally thought,
“Yes. I can’t have you.”

You don’t know how many times that I’ve had that dream.
The one where there’s just us two.
You don’t know how long I’ve really tried just to be,
And the only thing I can think of is you.

And then came the day where it was time to say goodbye.
All you had to do was choose.
To walk up to me and look with those eyes
At what we once thought was true.

But you held your pride
And you stayed turned around
So I left without you
And the rains hit the ground

It sounds like such a sad ending
And there are things I wish we had done
But thank you for the times we had.
Back then they really were fun.

Now it’s been quite a while
And I must let you go,
Which is why I am sharing my thoughts.
Because it could have been you,
And ever since then,
I am aware of what I have lost.

We were just too different; we couldn’t be blended,
And I can see that with the perspective I once lacked.
Thank you so much from the heart that you’d stolen;
I am finally taking it back.