Do You Remember Nashville?

Songtext

[Verse 1] Do you remember when we were younger, Before life got this complicated? Before there were years between the pictures, Before we knew how much could change us? Do you remember laughing over nothing, Staying up way too late? All those conversations that went nowhere That somehow I still remember today? Do you remember knowing me Before I became all these versions of myself? Do you remember who you were Before we had so much to carry? Sometimes I wonder If you ever sit alone And remember us The way I do. [Pre-Chorus] Because I can’t believe Twenty years of knowing somebody Can vanish [Chorus] Where do the memories go When you don’t know where the love goes? What happens to all those years When suddenly nothing feels certain anymore? Do you remember me laughing From the other side of the room? Do you remember looking at me Like there was nowhere else you wanted to be? And when you close your eyes, Do you ever see what I see? Because I don’t know How you throw a whole life out the window Without watching some of it Blow back in. [Verse 2 — Nashville] Do you remember Nashville? God, I swear we were the happiest We had ever been. One of those trips You don’t realize is going to matter forever Until forever changes. Do you remember Kevin there? Those might have been Some of the happiest days he ever had. Really happy. The kind where you look back now And wish you had known To hold onto every second A little tighter. And Dave in that ridiculous red tracksuit, Like somehow that became Part of the whole damn memory. All of us laughing. All of us together. Nobody knowing what was coming No complicated endings. No trying to figure out Who we were supposed to be. Just our people. Just us being happier Than maybe we even knew. [Chorus] Where do the memories go When you don’t know where the love goes? What happens to Nashville And all those nights When everything felt exactly right? Do you remember looking around And thinking, God, this is my life? [Verse 3] Do you remember the kids being younger? How different everything looked then? All the noise and the mess And wanting five minutes alone, And now I’d give anything To walk through one of those nights again. Do you remember becoming part Of all those ordinary pieces? The trips, the dinners, The stuff around the house, Your things mixed in with mine Until nobody remembered What belonged to who anymore? Your little trinkets everywhere. Your place beside me at night. There was a time I couldn’t picture this life Without you somewhere inside it? [Bridge] And sometimes I think about us. I wonder what younger us would say If we saw ourselves now. After Nashville. After everything. After all those years Of knowing each other Better than anyone else. I don’t think we’d be happy Seeing us hurt each other like this. I think we’d look at both of us Like we’d completely lost our minds. Like— Do you two remember Who you are to each other? Do you remember everything It took to get here? Do you remember How much you loved each other Before everything got so hard? Maybe I’m wrong. But I can almost hear The way we used to laugh. And God, I wish we could find Our way back there ourselves. [Breakdown] I’m not asking you Who was right. I’m not asking you Who hurt who more. I’m not asking you To erase what happened Or pretend nothing changed. I just want to know Do you remember? Do you remember me Before everything got heavy? Do you remember yourself? Do you remember When we were best friends Before we had so many reasons To be hurt? Do you ever look at Nashville pictures And stay there a little longer Than you meant to? Do you ever hear a song And almost send it to me? Do you ever start telling a story And realize halfway through That I’m in it? Because you’re in so many of mine. [Final Chorus] So where do the memories go If this isn’t where we thought we were going? Who gets Nashville? Who keeps the jokes? Who keeps that stupid red tracksuit And the stories we’ve told A hundred times? Who keeps the nights Kevin was taken care of by us? Who keeps the people We were back then? Who keeps that version of me That only ever existed with you? And who keeps the version of you That I knew better than anyone? Maybe nobody has to. Maybe memories don’t choose sides. Maybe love doesn’t disappear Just because people lose their way. Maybe all those years Are still somewhere between us, Waiting for one of us To remember. [Outro] Do you remember Nashville? Do you remember all of us laughing Like nothing bad Could ever find us there? Do you remember the kids little? Do you remember sitting beside me When that was enough? Do you remember me? Lass keeps fighting but She has to do it alone now. I'm sorry for it all, Jed I really, truly am But I have to start moving forward alone. Please know, though, that was never my plan. I will always be grateful for you, I will always be your biggest fan. I will always remember when it Was to you who I ran. I will miss you Viking