Missing Pages

Verse 1

I found your letters in a box

The dates all smudged and blue

I turn the chapters one by one

But half the words are gone

We started out so sure of us

I swear that much is true

The spine is cracked the cover worn

Stained by the rain we knew

Pre-Chorus

And I keep flipping backward

To find where we began

Chorus

Missing pages in our story

The first kiss the last goodbye

Torn out corners fading fast

Like fog before the light

I hold the empty spaces close

And try to fill them in

But every blank page wants to say

Where we were then

Post-Chorus

Ooh-ooh the parts I can't recall

Ooh-ooh I loved you through them all

Verse 2

The middle seems the loudest part

For every fight we hid

We underlined the quiet times

And scratched out what we did

I kept a receipt from the diner

Where we never meant to go

The margins hold the half-spoken words

I'll never fully know

Pre-Chorus

And I keep flipping forward

To see how this could end

Chorus

Missing pages in our story

The first kiss the last goodbye

Torn out corners fading fast

Like fog before the light

I hold the empty spaces close

And try to fill them in

But every blank page wants to say

Where we were then

Bridge

Maybe some books stay unfinished

Their endings left to me

I'll write your name across the gap

In ink you'll never see

Chorus

Missing pages in our story

The first kiss the last goodbye

Torn out corners fading fast

Like fog before the light

I hold the empty spaces close

And try to fill them in

But every blank page wants to say

Where we were then

Post-Chorus

Ooh-ooh the parts I can't recall

Ooh-ooh I loved you through them all