What It All Could Have Been

How do you define a lifetime

Is it hours or just a feeling

'Cause lately I've been lonely since you left

But silence isn't haunting when you have no regret

I can't be hurt 'cause it's how we lived

Do you ever go back to what it all could have been?

'Cause sometimes I go back to what it all could have been

And is it really pain

When all I can remember

Is winter nights

Holding each other

It's the local front page

Telling everyone we know

That the house you'd love

Is right down the road

I could shed a tear, but that's not what it is

Do you ever go back to what it all could have been?

'Cause sometimes i need it to remember to love again

I'd paint all the trees in your favorite park

A bright red and green like Christmas in march

A picnic in the meadow and champagne on pianos

Where we'd sing all the songs that no one ever wrote

It's the lake house you grew up on

(and your mom's favorite song)

Waves on a shore, cheering us on

That if it doesn't work, then is love really real?

But you taught me just how love should feel

Do you ever go back?

'Cause sometimes I go back?

'Cause I remember when I go back

It's right there when you go back

I could remind you now, the way it felt then

But maybe you won't remember, how wonderful it is

I could forget everything, but's not who i am

Cause every time i see you I think of what it all could have been