I Should Have Stayed

I walked away without a sound

Left your heart there on the ground

Thought that I would feel alright

Once I disappeared that night

You called my name but I kept going

Too afraid of what was showing

In the silence of goodbye

I pretended not to cry

Now the nights are twice as long

And every place feels somehow wrong

Every road I try to take

Leads me back to my mistake

I should have stayed

I should have held you close that day

Instead I let our love just fade

And walked away

I should have known

A heart like yours was once my home

Now I’m standing here alone

Wishing you’d come back someday

Your sweater hanging by the door

Still the way it was before

Like the moment froze in time

Right before you stopped being mine

Every word I never said

Keeps repeating in my head

All the chances that I missed

All the nights I should have kissed

Maybe love was standing there

And I was just too unaware

Now the truth is all I see

You were everything to me

I should have stayed

I should have held you close that day

Instead I let our love just fade

And walked away

I should have known

A heart like yours was once my home

Now I’m standing here alone

Wishing you’d come back someday

If I could turn the night around

I’d run to where you once were found

Tell you all the things I hid

And undo the things I did

But time moves like a silent train

Leaving only quiet pain

And every mile that it goes

Takes you further than I know

I should have stayed

I should have begged you not to leave

But I was blind to what we had

And what you meant to me

Now every night

I whisper softly to the sky

If love can hear a broken heart

Please send you back to my life