Always one step behind

Lyrics

Verse 1 If I had loved you harder Would you have stayed a while? If I had found you sooner Would you have seen my smile? I reached you in the silence When your heart was already claimed I learned too late some doors are closed Before you know their name Pre-Chorus Now I stand here like a passerby Watching your light from afar Close enough to feel the warmth Too far to touch the spark Chorus I was always a step behind you Always missing the sign If I’d arrived at the right moment You might have been mine But your fire was never for me It was burning for someone else So I loved you from a distance Like a stranger to myself Verse 2 I see you laugh with someone Who knows your fears by heart They found you in the right season I found you after the dark I carry all the almost All the words I couldn’t say I wonder who I’d be today If fate had bent my way Pre-Chorus Some loves aren’t meant to touch the ground They pass like falling stars Beautiful because they vanish Before they’re ever ours Chorus I was always a step behind you One breath, one beat too late Every lifetime I come searching But I miss you at the gate Your fire was never for me I was only passing through I learned how deep regret can run Loving someone like you Bridge In every life I find your eyes In crowded rooms, in different names I chase the echo of your soul But timing never changes If destiny had mercy once If clocks could turn for us Maybe I’d be more than memory More than what I wasn’t Final Chorus I was always a step behind you And that’s the truth I keep If I’d loved you just a little more If time had let me speak But your fire chose another heart And I won’t curse the flame I’ll carry you through every life Even if I’m late again Outro So here I stand, a stranger now With love that never fades Some hearts are meant to meet forever Just never in the same place