Strings of Fate

This one's for the ones who drifted apart

But still found their way back somehow

Love don't always take the straight road

We traced our names in morning light

But shadows pulled us far from home

Tugged by hands, we couldn't fight

Down roads, we had to walk alone

You loved me once beneath the stars

But stars fall too and leave no sound

Still every step, and scar and scar

Somehow led me back around

Strings of fate, they twist, they fray

They stretch 'til hearts forget their way

But even when the thread feels gone

It pulls us right where we belong

You were the song I couldn't play

But somehow I still heard it play

So maybe love was never late

Just tangled in the strings of fate

I saw your name in other faces

Heard your laugh in borrowed skies

But every dream led back to traces

Of the truth we couldn't disguise

You took the long road, I took pain

But both led here despite the strain

So maybe time was never cruel

Just teachin' hearts how not to chain

Strings of fate, they twist, they fray

They pull, they stretch, they snap away

But even in the threads that break

There's music only love can make

You were the fire I couldn't chase

But still you warmed my empty space

So maybe love don't come too late

Just tangled in the strings of fate

Sometimes it takes losin' somethin'

To understand it was never gone

Just waitin' for us to grow

Strings of fate, both cruel, and kind

We lose ourselves just so we find

And if the thread still leads to you

Then every tear was something true

You were the song I couldn't play

But still it plays in me today

And I believe now, love never breaks

Just bends in the strings of fate