Three-Year Echo of Us

Lyrics

Three years ago, I met you for the first time. I don’t know what it was, but something about you stayed with me. I was so shy that I could barely look into your eyes when you spoke. I never got your number. I never said how much I liked you. I just kept it to myself. My friends asked me, ‘Why didn’t you talk to him? Why didn’t you get his number?’ And I remember telling them, ‘It’s okay. If we’re meant to meet again, we will.’ I didn’t know when. I didn’t know how. But somehow, I was sure. Then life happened. I went back home. The years passed. People came and went. Everything changed. But every now and then, I would remember that day. Your smile. The way you talked. The way I couldn’t even look at you because I was so nervous. And still, I never chased the memory. I just trusted it. Because deep down, I always felt that our story wasn’t finished. Then, years later, life did something unexpected. Out of all the places I could be, out of all the people I could meet, I found you again. And it didn’t feel strange. It didn’t even feel surprising. It felt familiar. Like a promise I made to myself three years ago had finally come true. Maybe that’s why I believe that some people are written in your life more than once. You meet them, you lose them, life takes you in different directions, and somehow, if it’s meant to be, your paths cross again. I don’t know what happens next. I don’t know where this story goes. But I know one thing: Three years ago, when everyone asked why I let you walk away, I smiled and said, ‘Don’t worry. We’ll meet again.’ And somehow, we did