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Back When We Were Almost

Oct 10, 2026 · 3:54 · 28 plays · v3-preview

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About

A bittersweet song about the person you almost fell in love with, the words you never said, and the life that might have been. Years later, even with life moving forward, a photograph and an old memory are enough to bring back the question: What if we had been brave enough? Sometimes, the hardest thing to let go of isn't someone you lost, but someone you never got to have.

Lyrics

Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

Verse 1

I found a photograph from sophomore year

Your jacket gray and fading at the seams

I was nineteen and certain I knew everything

You were the question I never dared to ask

Verse 2

There's a ring on my hand that I forget

Some nights I take it off and set it on the sill

He's a good man who loves me in a quiet way

And I smile at him and I feel nothing still

Chorus

Back when we were almost something

Back when we were almost there

I keep walking down that hallway

Looking for you everywhere

Back when we were almost something

Almost brave enough to speak

Now I'm standing in a kitchen

Wishing I could go back

Post-Chorus

Almost almost

Oh-oh

Almost almost

Oh-oh

Verse 3

You turned and walked away that afternoon

I told myself it didn't mean a thing

I put my books up and I put my heart down too

And I let the silence teach me how to sing

Chorus

Back when we were almost something

Back when we were almost there

I keep walking down that hallway

Looking for you everywhere

Back when we were almost something

Almost brave enough to speak

Now I'm standing in a kitchen

Wishing I could go back

Instrumental Break

Bridge

Maybe we were only kids

Maybe we were right to run

Maybe you felt it too

And just never said a word

I don't want you to come save me

I don't want to blame the man I chose

I just want to know

Final Chorus

Back when we were almost something

Back when we were almost there

I would trade this whole ring for it

Trade the years I cannot share

Back when we were almost something

Almost brave enough to speak

Now I'm standing in a kitchen

Wishing I could go back

Outro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Almost

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