Almost Home

I was seventeen, dancing in the back of your car

Windows down, catching fireflies in a mason jar

You said, Lets drive till the streetlights fade

And the world felt small, just a heartbeat away

Falling in love on a Tuesday night

Laughing till it hurt in the pale moonlight

You made me believe in forever somehow

But thats something we laugh about now

Cause we were almost perfect, almost real

Living like a dream we could touch, we could feel

We were almost forever, like the stories we'd tell

But almost never stood a chance to be real

And now every backroad just leads me to ghosts

We were almost lovers, almost home

I ran into you just the other day

Your voice felt warm, but the words felt strange

You smiled and asked, How have you been?

But your eyes said the story we will never begin

We were fireworks fading too fast

Too bright to burn, too wild to last

Now I am left tracing the lines of your name

In places that will never feel the same

Cause we were almost perfect, almost real

Living like a dream we could touch, we could feel

We were almost forever, like the stories we would tell

But almost never stood a chance to be real

And now every backroad just leads me to ghosts

We were almost lovers, almost home

Sometimes I wonder, late at night

If you still think of that July

In another life, in another place

Maybe we would stay, maybe we would stay

But we were almost perfect, almost true

A love we outgrew but we never outgrew

We were almost forever like the stories we would tell

But almost does not count when you are saying farewell

And now every backroad just leads me to ghosts

We were almost lovers, almost home

Almost home, yeah, we were so close

Almost together, but now you are a ghost

We were almost perfect, but never enough

A faded memory of almost love